Wearables fail for elderly patients due to charging and pairing noncompliance
Adi Berenson · HealthTech Device Prevents COPD Patients from Hospital Visits, $9m Raised, 50 Devices Shipped · Dec 28, 2021 · at 10:55
Adi Berenson, CEO of Clair Labs, explains why contact-free monitoring IoT devices are necessary instead of consumer wearables like Whoop or Apple Watch for elderly COPD patients.
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“So number one problem with COPD patients, and with other chronic patients, especially elderly, is compliance. Everything that requires them to take action, which is charging, putting it back on, tolerating it even, pairing it with the phone, is Is, is going to lead to low compliance. So there is going to be, there are a lot of attempts to use wearables with them. It just doesn't work.”
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