Garmin Smartwatches Move into Healthcare: From Step Counting to Data That Helps Care for Patients
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Smartwatches no longer just count steps or track heart rate. Garmin, a company well known for sports watches and fitness enthusiasts, is expanding its devices' role into health more and more, using data collected from its watches to help care for patients and support medical work.
According to a report from Techsauce, the application areas Garmin presents span several fields: disease prevention, therapy and health rehabilitation, research, health insurance systems, employee health care in organizations, exercise and fitness, and workplace safety. Taken together, these show that data from wearable devices can be used in far more varied ways than personal everyday self-care.
However, the news report does not provide full details about how this business model operates. It is therefore not yet clear how data will be handled in each area, or which groups of stakeholders will be involved.
This trend shows that wearable devices are shifting from tools for exercise to tools that collect and analyze health data. Readers in Thailand who are interested in health and technology should therefore keep following news on the progress of services like this.
Sources: Techsauce
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