Our tech-focused world allows us to fall into a sedentary lifestyle easily. We are often plugged into our computers at work, spend time on devices at home, and have automated home systems that can turn on our lights or TVs. Gadgets and technology can also encourage us to improve our health by giving us greater access to physical therapy and managing diabetes. 

Today, the rise of smartwatches and wearables is revolutionizing healthcare in an entirely new way by allowing us to take charge of our physical and mental wellbeing from our wrists. There are many ways to use a smart watch for wellbeing and to build a healthy life.

Here are a few ways to use the smartwatch for wellbeing

1. Keeping track of healthcare data

Wearables are revolutionizing the doctor-patient relationship by providing insights into your wellbeing that drives actionable care supported by data. You can program your watch to track your sleep, diet, physical activity, and other health information and share it with your doctor for better insight into your overall health. 

Smart Watches also monitor and record valuable heart-related details that have saved lives. They also have the potential to detect chronic diseases, as well.

2. Medication reminders

For patients with chronic conditions requiring frequent medications, or anyone currently taking one, it’s essential to follow the prescription guidelines as directed by a doctor. 

While patients do their best to adhere to their medication schedule, it’s easy to miss a dose or forget to refill something. Smartwatch apps set reminders to automate and track medicine doses to ensure you’re managing your prescriptions correctly.

3. Bringing a Healthy and Active Lifestyle

Are smartwatches making people more active? A recent survey showed that 57% of smartwatch owners started exercising more after purchasing a wearable device. With a wealth of apps available, anyone can quickly jump-start a fitness routine that’s at a level designed for them.

Devices like these also send gentle reminders to support an active lifestyle when you’ve been sedentary.

In terms of exercise tracking, many wearable apps fall into the following categories:

Activity tracking:

Many smart devices have built-in activity trackers that log your movement. Smartwatch can help track everything from steps per day, your heart rate, calories burned, and much more. Activity tracking apps also work great because they encourage many of us to meet our daily fitness goals and push our regular physical activity by displaying trends that set new objectives as we progress. 

Short workouts: 

These apps provide short interval workouts, easy-to-follow tutorials, and progress monitoring you can read from your wrist. Even if you only have 10 minutes a day, using them encourages many of us to increase our overall physical activity.

Workouts on demand: 

These workout apps allow you to pick the type of fitness routine that works with your schedule and skill level. You can pair your smartwatch with your phone or another device to get real-time readings of your overall accomplishments and the calories you burned, whether you’re doing yoga, in a spin class, strength training at the gym, or a multitude of other activities.

4. Helps in the early detection of diseases

Preventative care and early disease detection are some of the best ways to reduce overall health care costs by alerting you of potential health hazards sooner rather than later. Research shows that smartwatches are improving the detection of certain heart diseases like atrial fibrillation (AFib) by identifying early warning signs through digital health sensors. 

Other studies suggest that wearable devices might also catch other illnesses like the common cold. In addition to disease detection, smartwatches monitor heart function and other cardiac health issues through diagnostic data and their Electrocardiograms (ECG) function. Discovering an illness and seeking treatment early often leads to reduced medical costs.

5. Monitor Diet and calorie intake

A healthy diet promotes physical and mental wellbeing. While we have the best intention of sticking to our diets, it’s easy for us to lose focus or get distracted. Calorie counting, healthy eating habits, meal planning, and sticking to a schedule require a lot of planning and attention. 

Fortunately, smartwatches have apps that track and log your calorie intake for each meal, making monitoring calories a breeze. There are even apps that include a wealth of dietary information, with food items and the number of calories found in a typical serving. We all know a healthy diet promotes physical and mental wellbeing.
 

Clairvoyance Tech is a company focused on leveraging market-leading technology solutions to build life-saving consumer electronic products. They aim to measure, manage and monitor vital parameters to prevent a fatal medical incident and help respond fast when needed.

Wearable devices and smartwatches are quickly becoming indispensable technologies in the healthcare industry. Smartwatches can monitor your heart rate, sleep habits, and physical activity for patients. For doctors, patients can then take that information and share it with their physician to gain valuable insight into their health to make alterations that could improve their overall well-being.

Smartwatches also improve your wellbeing by giving you access to apps designed around specific health conditions like diabetes. They also grant you access to many fitness, dieting, and mental health apps that encourage us to maintain a healthy lifestyle more conveniently than ever.