Wearable devices in health - using Google Glass, Apple Watch & Health Bands in medicine

1. Wearable Devices in Health
Google Glass, Apple Watch, health
bands & others
Dr Gaurav Gupta

2. Outline
• What are wearable health devices?
• Types & examples
• My experience with wearables
• Problems
• The Future is wearables!

4. What is Google Glass?
• Hands-free Smart Phone
• Camera – 720p HD video
• Touchpad – Slide
• LED Display
• Voice activation – ‘OK Glass’

6. Google Glass in India
• Cardiac surgery in Nanavati
Hospital, Mumbai
• Foot Surgery in Jaipur
• Upper GI Laparoscopy &
Hernia - Chennai
• Reliance Hospital, Mumbai –
ER

8. Apple Watch – what does it do?
• Can receive phone calls & SMS
• Remote control for Apple TV
• Can work as a walkie talkie & a view finder for
iphone camera
• Tracks fitness,

10. Classifying wearables
• Wristbands & Smart watches
• Glasses & head mounted displays
• Jewelry & wearables (clothing, footwear)
• Embedded (skin patches) & ingestibles (pills)

11. DigitSoles - is half activity
tracker and half foot warmer.
Lechal shoes & insoles -
Navigation, Fitness & Interaction

12. QUELL uses TENS to relieve nerve-related pain in
conditions such as sciatica, fibromyalgia, RA, knee
injuries, sprains and labor pain.
Works within 15 mins

13. Misfit’s Swarovski Shine is world’s first solar powered
wearable tracker

14. Spider Dress – 3 D printed dress with spider legs
that will extend and LED will light up if someone
invades your personal space

15. VISIJAX -
23 integrated high intensity LEDs,
both front (white) and back (red),
motion-activated, self-cancelling
turn indicators

17. OhMiBoD
Where technology goes, sex is sure to follow.
This adult "luxury massager" introduces biometric
feedback that will alter the vibrations based on heart
rate.

18. Baby wearables
Temp Traq
Pacif-i smart pacifier
Baby GLGL
GRUSH

19. Smart Diapers & Tooth Tattoos

20. The Maestro System is a FDA
approved pacemaker-like
device implanted to control
both hunger and fullness by
intermittently blocking the
vagus nerve

21. My Experience with wearables
Mi-Band

25. Issues with Wearables
• People get bored of wearables
• Privacy – Data
• Privacy – Personal
• Devices reliability – approvals / regulation
• Side-effects
• What to do with patient generated data?
• Costs

26. The near future
• Augmented reality Sunglasses
• Bracelet – Satellite Distress Signal
• Wristbands – Sports performance/ injury
• Insurance apps linked to fitness bands
• Controlling Google Glasses with Brainwaves
• Thync – using neurostimulation to calm you
• Contact lens monitoring glucose levels

27. Google Nano Pills
Magnetic particles 10,000 times smaller than the width of
human hair
Biomarker Antibodies / proteins attached for diseases like
cancer or imminent heart attack.
Travels through body and because of magnetic cores, can be
directed to a sensor

28. The near future

30. Three wearables that I want
1. A brainwave/thought-reading headset that
could read my brain activity - No more
typing, I would just think about words.
No more struggling to explain dreams or
ideas, I could just show what I was visualizing
on a connected screen.
Also for people undergoing medical care or
barriers between thought and speech.

31. Three wearables that I want
2. A smart implant (like a barcode) containing
my identifying information.
Unlock doors, pay for things, never enter a
password again, interact with machines,
exchange contact info with others etc.

32. Three wearables that I want
3. Comprehensive health monitor & let me
know need for lifestyle changes/ medical
attention.
Monitor blood sugar, electrolytes and vitamins,
hydration, stress and other hormones.
Check for viruses, WBC count, and cell
mutations.

33. Call to action
• Large Hospitals – Networking between
departments
• Intensivist, Neonatologists & Emergency Care
– Checking Patient Vitals when not available
• Surgeons – Use for training
• Nursing Homes & Clinics –
Physician Heal Thyself !
Personal tracking – buy a wearable NOW.
• Prescribe it for at least one of your parents in
the next 30 days