> Would be cool if we had wearable patches like Continuous Glucose Monitors, but monitoring for all kinds of diseases. I think we’re well on the way for this.

> Would be cool if we had wearable patches like Continuous Glucose Monitors, but monitoring for all kinds of diseases. I think we’re well on the way for this. Already the Oura ring and the Apple Watch are collecting data to detect arrhythmias and other heart issues. During the height of the COVID pandemic, the Oura ring detected infections prior to people having noticeable symptoms. Thanks to my Apple Watch, I have years of medical data including things that aren’t normally tracked by most medical professionals in the US such as walking steadiness (a metric for the risk of falling), heart rate variability, resting heart rate and lots more that can give doctors a heads up that something not good is happening. The problem is, unless you’re part of a very progressive medical practice or in a clinical trial, there’s often no way to get the medical establishment to pay attention to this data or get it into their IT systems. Older doctors especially are conditioned to basically ignore patient reported (or collected) data that’s not temperature or weight.