Wearable Devices in Health

Google Glass, Apple Watch, health bands & others

Dr Gaurav Gupta

Outline

• What are wearable health devices?

• Types & examples

• My experience with wearables

• Problems

• The Future is wearables!

What is Google Glass?

• Hands-free Smart Phone

• Camera – 720p HD video

• Touchpad – Slide

• LED Display

• Voice activation – ‘OK Glass’

Google Glass in India

• Cardiac surgery in NanavatiHospital, Mumbai

• Foot Surgery in Jaipur

• Upper GI Laparoscopy & Hernia - Chennai

• Reliance Hospital, Mumbai –ER

Apple Watch – what does it do?

• Can receive phone calls & SMS

• Remote control for Apple TV

• Can work as a walkie talkie & a view finder for iphone camera

• Tracks fitness,

Classifying wearables

• Wristbands & Smart watches

• Glasses & head mounted displays

• Jewelry & wearables (clothing, footwear)

• Embedded (skin patches) & ingestibles (pills)

DigitSoles - is half activity tracker and half foot warmer.

Lechal shoes & insoles -Navigation, Fitness & Interaction

QUELL uses TENS to relieve nerve-related pain inconditions such as sciatica, fibromyalgia, RA, knee injuries, sprains and labor pain. Works within 15 mins

Misfit’s Swarovski Shine is world’s first solar powered wearable tracker

Spider Dress – 3 D printed dress with spider legs that will extend and LED will light up if someone invades your personal space

VISIJAX -23 integrated high intensity LEDs, both front (white) and back (red), motion-activated, self-cancelling turn indicators

OhMiBoDWhere technology goes, sex is sure to follow. This adult "luxury massager" introduces biometric feedback that will alter the vibrations based on heart rate.

Baby wearables

Temp TraqPacif-i smart pacifier

Baby GLGLGRUSH

Smart Diapers & Tooth Tattoos

The Maestro System is a FDA approved pacemaker-like device implanted to control both hunger and fullness by intermittently blocking the vagus nerve

My Experience with wearablesMi-Band

Issues with Wearables

• People get bored of wearables

• Privacy – Data

• Privacy – Personal

• Devices reliability – approvals / regulation

• Side-effects

• What to do with patient generated data?

• Costs

The near future

• Augmented reality Sunglasses

• Bracelet – Satellite Distress Signal

• Wristbands – Sports performance/ injury

• Insurance apps linked to fitness bands

• Controlling Google Glasses with Brainwaves

• Thync – using neurostimulation to calm you

• Contact lens monitoring glucose levels

Google Nano Pills

Magnetic particles 10,000 times smaller than the width of human hairBiomarker Antibodies / proteins attached for diseases like cancer or imminent heart attack.Travels through body and because of magnetic cores, can be directed to a sensor

The near future

Three wearables that I want

1. A brainwave/thought-reading headset that could read my brain activity - No more typing, I would just think about words. No more struggling to explain dreams or ideas, I could just show what I was visualizing on a connected screen. Also for people undergoing medical care or barriers between thought and speech.

Three wearables that I want

2. A smart implant (like a barcode) containing my identifying information. Unlock doors, pay for things, never enter a password again, interact with machines, exchange contact info with others etc.

Three wearables that I want

3. Comprehensive health monitor & let me know need for lifestyle changes/ medical attention. Monitor blood sugar, electrolytes and vitamins, hydration, stress and other hormones. Check for viruses, WBC count, and cell mutations.

Call to action

• Large Hospitals – Networking between departments

• Intensivist, Neonatologists & Emergency Care – Checking Patient Vitals when not available

• Surgeons – Use for training

• Nursing Homes & Clinics –Physician Heal Thyself ! Personal tracking – buy a wearable NOW.

• Prescribe it for at least one of your parents in the next 30 days