Powell Dylan, Godfrey Alan
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
NPJ Digit Med. 2023 Apr 22;6(1):70. doi: 10.1038/s41746-023-00820-z.
Wearable technologies are becoming ever more popular as suggested tools for use in modern medicine. Studies evidence their growing pragmatism and provision of objective data for a more informative and personalised approach to patient care. Yet many wearables are one dimensional, despite the underlying technology being common across a large array of tools. That is primarily due to the accompanying software, unmodifiable or black box-based scripts that generally lack accessibility or modification, meaning wearables may often get discarded. Use of wearables for sustainable healthcare needs careful consideration.
可穿戴技术作为现代医学中建议使用的工具正变得越来越流行。研究证明了它们日益增长的实用性,以及为更具信息性和个性化的患者护理方法提供客观数据。然而,尽管许多可穿戴设备所基于的技术在大量工具中是通用的,但它们往往功能单一。这主要是由于配套软件,即不可修改或基于黑匣子的脚本,通常缺乏可访问性或可修改性,这意味着可穿戴设备可能经常被丢弃。将可穿戴设备用于可持续医疗保健需要仔细考虑。