How wearables are leveling the healthcare playing field

The process of at-home care and recovery has been completely revolutionized in our increasingly connected world, with health wearables carving the way forward for the industry. The technology ceased being a sci-fi plotline when it first went mainstream with the advent of the Fitbit. Last year, health wearables experienced a boom in popularity when the latest series of Apple Watch arrived with a number of futuristic-feeling health features, such as an electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor which can measure heart rate and rhythm. The industry has not looked back, with the global market expected to reach almost $4.4bn by the end of 2019, before soaring to a whopping $17.8bn in 2021, according to Statista. With the industry thriving and ceaselessly innovating, we now have an almost unbelievable capacity to receive and understand our own health data from the comfort of our own homes. And it is shaping the way we view our personal health considerably.