How Are Wearable Medical Devices Changing the Game in Healthcare?

At BIOMEDevice San Jose, Girish Sripathi, wireless embedded engineer—medical devices at Philips Healthcare, will present an overview of how wearable devices are playing roles across many areas of the industry.

Trends toward wearable medical devices are growing, both in the consumer sector and in healthcare. “There are many trends, both in the hospital segments and consumer segments, and they go based on specific needs or wants—what the consumer wants or the hospital wants,” said Girish Sripathi, wireless embedded engineer—medical devices, at Philips Healthcare, in an interview with MD+DI. For his upcoming presentation at BIOMEDevice San Jose, he said he would talk very generally about wearable medical devices. Examples he cited are fitness wearables like watches and chest straps, which could increase in the future depending on how people would like to look at the data from these devices. Regarding the trends, it is highly likely that there could be more research and more avenues for analyzing the patient’s historical data and updating them on alarming signals.