Are you Wearing a Smartwatch?

Are you currently wearing a smartwatch? Or are you in the market to purchase one and just haven’t been able to pull the trigger?

When wearing a smartwatch, you’re not only adding to the booming 16 billion dollar market of wearable Medtech devices but also enacting a form of preventative healthcare. When wearing a smartwatch, you can monitor your heart rate, temperature, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation all while going about your daily life.

Depending on what smartwatch you have, it also contains segments such as diagnostic monitoring, vital sign monitoring, ECG/heart rate monitors, blood pressure monitors, wrist actigraph, polysomnography devices, and traditional diagnostic tests.

It is projected by 2026 that the market value of wearable Medtech devices will be $30 billion and $61 billion by 2032.

Why is there such a demand for these wearable smart devices? Isn’t a smartphone enough?

Thinking in a more broad sense we have been wearing health devices for years. Think of pacemakers, glucose monitors for people with diabetes, defibrillators, etc. The only difference is it’s a watch that goes on your wrist.

People like wearing smartwatches because they are personalized. They can customize the wristband, watch face, and input their health data such as medication reminders, exercise reminders, and emergency healthcare settings. Not only can you input your medical health data, but the watch can also collect and add to that data. It shows your trends whether you don’t stand and move around enough during the day, your walking heart rate is high, etc. After a certain amount of time, the watch then compresses this data and presents it in a graph to visually show you your trends.

With the rise in heart disease and diabetes in young teens and adults, wearing a smartwatch can be a preventative measure. I recently purchased an Apple Watch. Can I say I love it? No. Can I say I hate it? Also no. Im at the point where when I wear the watch, I’m reminded to keep my body moving. It also pushes me to get out and exercise and to close my fitness rings which is a goal I set for myself every day. I have noticed when I don’t wear it, I slack off a little bit since I’m not consistently reminded.

I thought it would be helpful to list some smartwatches and their specialties if you were in the market to purchase one.

Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 $115