Today the focus is on devices associated with preventive healthcare: Nitin Gera, Airo Digital Labs

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, in conversations with Nitin Gera, Co-founder and global operations head, AiRo Digital Labs

In countries like the US, UK, China, the whole wearable market has grown by 288% over the last three years. In India, it is growing about 170% and this is where we are just talking about smartphones and smart wearables.

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Nitin Gera, Co-founder and global operations head, AiRo Digital Labs, to know more about the expanding market associated with wearable devices in healthcare.

Preventive Health care: Impact of digital intervention
I think that is the way the whole healthcare industry would focus more on the individuals, lay their responsibility of healthcare on the individual doorstep. So each one of us have to look at how we are able to upkeep our health, upkeep the health of our family and friends using technology. Examples would be wearable, smartwatches, smartphones, smart jewellery, smart clothes. We can also look at how smart phones are enabling us to take control of our health and betterment. As an example, one way we could look at things, or one futuristic or current scenario is wearing a smartwatch, it gives me alerts, the pulse rate going beyond normal, it gives me an alert, my family would get notified, my physician would get notified and all of these can look at what’s wrong with me, am I in the need of an emergency health, or am I doing something that I’m not supposed to do, running on a polluted road in the city. A lot of these things, technology would enable, technology would allow people to take charge of their day-to-day activities. Whereby, Healthcare instead of being thought about as an activity when we visit a doctor or a hospital would become a day to day routine activity for us.