Advocating for clinical wearables, the new normal in healthcare
Wearables devices are poised to reshape the patient experience from hospital to home by creating a new normal that puts patients back in charge of their healthcare. 

· Intention – People are often skeptical of new technology and their possible disruption to workflow, especially in a healthcare setting. Purveyors of these solutions must promote the fact that connected sensing technology was designed with a deep understanding of ourselves, our unmet needs, and the ever-changing healthcare continuum – it is not an accidental aside to consumer technology.

· Education – For clinical wearables to become a reality, both health systems and patients need to be on board. Once providers and payers fully understand and acknowledge the contribution clinical wearables could make to healthcare worldwide, they will be able to better educate their patients on how to use the technology for an easier, more comfortable experience.

· Collaboration – Deploying clinical wearables on a larger scale requires a collaborative relationship between vendors, providers, payers and patients, where vendors deliver the vision and capabilities while providers, payers, and patients share direct feedback to inform their continued innovation.

With the above considerations in mind, our next step as an industry should be to create and implement a plan taking into account all parties involved—from development to routine use—for an environment that maximizes the benefits of clinical wearables on a global scale. With 2017 already under way, we must remain persistent and keep moving our initiative forward through education that demonstrates how this technology can lower patient costs, ease physician workloads, and put chronic disease sufferers back in control. Their potential to streamline healthcare industry costs and operations worldwide cannot and should not be ignored.

With 2018 looming in the not-too-distant future, we must remain persistent and keep moving our initiative forward through education that demonstrates how this technology can lower patient costs, ease physician workloads, and put chronic disease sufferers back in control. Clinical wearables have the potential to streamline healthcare industry costs and operations worldwide cannot and should not be ignored.

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