Wearable Technologies

Wearable Technologies 

describe what you understand by the term ‘Wearable

Technologies’ as a trend in Information Technology.

Industry : Healthcare industry

Wearable devices- are electronic devices made to be worn into users body to monitor and track their health condition. The devices are fitted with sensors so they can monitor and track the health condition of the user.

Example

 Smart watch that has sensors and monitor and track heart rate and blood pressure of the user.

 Smart glasses are used by surgeons to conduct an efficient surgery to a patient by getting real time data as they operate.

  The range of opportunities presented by wearable technologies

- Promoting a healthier lifestyle as the patients are able to monitor their health conditions while at home or any other place using the smart watches and other wearable technologies.

- Enhanced surgeries as surgeon use the smart glasses to conduct the surgery to patients and have access to real time information about health condition of his/her patient.

- Saving on time as the wearable technologies provide doctors with faster information about the patients and their health conditions, and also the doctor can get to know the sickness of his/her patient faster. This helps in minimizing the time that could be used when doing several tests.

- Improves the way of managing diseases, heart disease patients and blood pressure patients are able to manage well their conditions by using the wearable technologies to continuously monitor and detect early any health problem and get timely interventions.

 

 five of the key management challenges that are presented by the same

i. Data privacy- wearable electronic devices like smartwatch collect sensitive data of the patient and they may get accessed by unauthorized personnel thus endangering the privacy of the patient.

ii. Resource constraints- the devices relay on electricity and batteries to operate thus sometimes get limited when there is no electricity or when battery has no charge.

iii. Regulatory requirements- these devices need to adhere to many regulations so as to make sure they are safe and ethical for use.

iv. Interoperability- it is hard to operate these devices and integrated data of the patient with other systems for analysis purposes

v. User acceptance- the users may hesitate to adopt these technologies due to discomfort caused by the devices and the concerns about their privacy.

 

 merits and demerits associated with technology leadership. And examples

Merits

-Competitive advantage- being the leading in technology provides an advantage of being ahead of others thus having a great chance to competing others.

-High reputation for the brand- leading in technology makes more investors to trust and get attracted into your brand thus having a huge impact in the market.

Example: Apple’s smartwatch has made Apple company gain a high brand reputation

Demerits

-Uncertainty and risks- there is a high risk of the new technology to fail as it’s future is uncertain whether it shall be successful and users will accept it.

-Expensive investment- to gain the best technology it requires doing some research and purchasing some expensive resources which require a large amount of capital.