In the past ten years, consumer wearable devices have been heated and revived. The reason is that people have high expectations for it, but they finally find that it brings convenience to life without much imagination.
Recently, however, close relatives of wearable devices, medical -grade wearable devices, are re-emerging as a hot spot in Silicon Valley. The fundamental difference in the types of data collected makes it a new industry future and market space.
As the name implies, medical-grade wearable devices need to pass FDA testing to collect and monitor medical-grade accurate human data, increase the probability of disease prevention, and thus reduce medical costs. CVS's 2016 report shows that medical-grade wearables can save $63 million per 100,000 patients.
What kind of impact does this medical grade wearables have on the medical system in the United States and the world? What has it gone in the United States? The reporter interviewed the founder of VivaLnk, the representative company in the digital health field in the United States. Dr. Li Jiang talked with them about this emerging industry that could produce countless future medical necessities.
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In the recent A Brief History of the World, a picture has been painted: doctors are completely replaced by machines, and artificial intelligence doctors can easily access massive disease data and treatments that humans cannot exhaust, and monitor human health 24 hours a day. .
In real life, we may have to wait and see, and wait for decades to know if the author is in the mouth. The only certainty is that in the United States, visible progress is happening in the medical industry.
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FreeStyleLibre Flash, developed by Abbott Labs, enables remote monitoring of blood glucose through sensors; Biomedicity, a provider of telemedicine monitoring services, announces partnership with AT&T, the largest US operator, which will provide "almost real-time" human data transmission capabilities; VivaLnk It is currently the first company in the world to collect human body data using electronic skin technology, and has signed a contract with the world's top 500 companies for 10 million US dollars.
“The medical-grade wearable devices that are now on the market have met the FDA certification and have brought a lot of shock to the industry.†Li Jiang believes that the information collected by past wearable devices is not accurate enough to be used for medical treatment, and traditional Medical Equipment is too It is a cumbersome, isolated, modern medical treatment that does not adapt to the interconnection of all things and data. Medical grade wearables are an option that combines the best of both worlds.
In addition, Silicon Valley investors pointed out to reporters that market education has been completed thanks to the hot wave of wearable devices in the past few years. This laid the foundation for the explosion of the medical-grade wearable device industry in the future.
There used to be no “failure†for wearable devices. Although it is no longer a concept of venture capitalism, it has actually changed the lives of many people.
At VivaLnk's office in the heart of Silicon Valley, the reporter looked around and half of the staff wore a FitBit bracelet that recorded heartbeats and steps.
"Users have a basic concept and understanding of this technology, and the new medical-grade wearable startups can continue to adjust to the real needs of the market based on the experience of past wearable companies." Li Jiang said.
According to a report by the authoritative medical institution Frost & Sullivan, the market size of medical-grade wearable devices will reach $18.9 billion in 2020 from $5.1 billion in 2015.
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