BIO375H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Federal Communications Commission, Wearable Technology, Body Area Network
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Digital health and implicaions for health & medicine . Widespread smartphone adopion, along with cheaper and smaller sensor technology has given rise to wearable health technology. If wearable health technology lourishes, it will lead to a sea change in medicine, called big data in. A threat for wearable technology is there is no good use case. Pavlok is a habit-forming wearable that will shock you it uses negaive reinforcement as moivaion to go to the gym. To anicipate changes in our ields, we need to look outside them. Medicine is impacted by transformaive technology, regardless of where it originates. Life science sotware has been a limited commercial opportunity. Vertex pharmaceuicals is a leader in raional drug design . There is a rise of apps that has driven our regulatory path. Right now, we are able to patent on sotware we are in a new world, in the past we cannot do this.
