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Samsung's wearable strategy is two-pronged. It's got the mainstream wearables, like your Gear Sport and Gear Fit2 Pro, but it's also got a lot of experimentations in digital health. This is stuff that's way far down the line, but the company wants to show off anyway. The most famous example of this is the Samsung Simband. It was a reference wearable that was packed with sensors that could track blood pressure, skin temperature, sweat production, blood volume, heart rate, and more. It was actually a reaction to rumors of Apple creating a high-tech health wearable. That turned out to not be the case, so Samsung turned its attention to its Gear line instead. However, it also turns out that the Simband lives on. Dr. Francis Ho, Samsung's head of digital health, says the company still plugs away on the project. In fact, the Simband is still a central figure in Samsung's health plans. The body speaks Samsung's larger health plan for digital health is an idea it calls "Voice of the Body." The goal of the idea is basically to make it as easy as possible for the human body to communicate health information via sensors. This could be as simple as heart rate to as complicated as the food you eat and your sleep quality. This idea would go beyond Samsung's wearables, too, as Samsung is a massive company that makes all kinds of products. It has refrigerators and washers and driers and all kinds of smart home products. It would combine data from all of these, plus its mobile products, to give you a full look at your health. Eventually, Ho says the goal is to be able to detect or predict cancer. As Roman Llamas, IDC research manager for wearables and mobile phones, points out, attaining a goal to predict cancer is much harder than it sounds. There are multiple types of cancers with different predictors and flags that a device, and corresponding software, would have to learn how to identify. Regardless, Samsung's not just looking to communicate your body's desires and needs to you though, it's also working on wearables that could improve how people see the world - literally. At CES 2018, we tried out the Relúmĭno smartglasses, which could help people with glaucoma, myopia and other visual impairments to better see.

discusses the use of IT by a health care organization.

demonstrate your understanding of the benefit of the appropriate use of IT by the organization discussed in your article.

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Wearable Devices make people as a active participants for their health management..Wearable devices due to advanced Technology being as a passive recipients..Wearable users can control the devices and there is lot of products in the market which incorporate among population health management strategy..Examples of wearable devices like smart watches,sport watches,fitness trackers and medical devices like Glucometer..This Advanced tech devices can be worn in wrist,arm, neck, hip or in cloths..sensors which record their basic vitals and glucose level,BMR etc..This helps to modify their lifestyle and make awareness of risk factors and provide treatment plans..The main advantage of this device provide Interoperatability which this data can be shared with their health care providers for their treatment plans..This data can be shared to others also to develop motivation,make challenges and participation in usage..IT involvement in wearable technology for health care organization it improve business strategy by boosting patient engagement and avoiding costly care events that is to prevent readmission and Emergency departments visit etc..
Wearable devices provide oppourtunity for patients and helps providers to consistently monitor patient progress,value the timely interventions,immediate feed back etc..HIPAA security requirements should be followed in wearable devices..Under HIPAA if the devices selected by the patient it is considered a consumer product which HIPAA requirement do not needed..but if the devices ordered by the physician then HIPAA requirements does needed to be applied..patient generated health data(PGHD) should be effectively addressed into care management and delivery,which providers should make benefit for population health management and consumer strategy..
Same like samsung products and other advance wearable branded devices The fusion of fashion, tech is the levi,Jacquard and google have collaboration with each other that can be wearable with other cloths with own app we can control and monitor music,video and health too..L'Oreal researchers developed wearable device can prevent UV exposure if it can be wear on people blazer which can measure accurate reading of the UV level can protect the skin..There is a discussion about well-known fitness trackers, fitbit, can help doctors to findout how people may react to chemotherapy..Health care organization and people around the world get benefit from wearable technology..