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Wearable Technology
on Healthcare and Nursing
Team Members:
Cherley Gerard , Kadia Williams, Marie Reguenard, Piereena Martinez
Chamberlain University
Dr. Christa Stigler
April 16, 2023
Introduction of Technology & Team
History and Current Use
Impact on Healthcare & Nursing
Patient safety
Wearable technology is used to monitor the health of patients.
Doctors track the patient data and activity using wearable technology to find out patient’s condition and thus be able to manage the illness (Kurtz et al., 2022).
For instance, heart rate can be monitored by Fitbit to detect cardiovascular issues.
Wearable technology devices are used to alert nurses patient’s health concern thus preventing the patient from adverse circumstances.
Fitbit
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Quality of care measures/monitoring
Quality of care can be improved by use of wearable technology in healthcare.
Wearable technology devices allow nurses to provide personalized care plans to the needs of patients.
The devices allow the nurses to monitor the progress of their patients.
Risk management
Potential health conditions can be identified early by wearable devices before they escalate.
The conditions are thus treated and managed early to reduce the risks.
Risks assessments are carried out using wearable technology preventing much risks to the patients.
Privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient data
Sensitive data of patients is collected by wearable devices.
Wearable devices are connected to internet, thus, a third party can access collect data posing risk to patient’s privacy.
Wearable devices may be hacked causing patient’s data be compromised (Sethuraman, Vijayakumar & Walczak, 2020).
Nurses should thus work on protecting the confidentiality of patient’s data.
According to HIPAA, patient’s data should be kept secure and confidential.
Nurses should use encryption and strong passwords to ensure privacy.
Effect on population within the region
Population of a place can be impacted by use of wearable technology.
The impact can be felt through improvement of healthcare services.
Wearable technology has enhanced economical healthcare services (Nahavandi et al., 2022).
Ethical practice
Ethical issues in healthcare may be created due to the use of wearable technology.
Wearable devices collect personal data of patients that may be accessed by third party.
Wearable devices may give false positive information causing stress to the patients.
Nurses have to consider ethical principles while using these devices.
Compliance with legal and regulatory mandates
Wearable technology has positive impact on compliance with regulatory and legal mandates.
For example, collection of real-time data will help to comply with patient’s privacy and confidentiality.
Quality healthcare can be provided by use of wearable technology through patient’ engagement.
Organizational infrastructure and operations
Wearable technology enhances the organizational operations and infrastructure.
New resources will be put in place to accommodate wearable technology in the organization.
Healthcare providers will have to be trained on the use of these devices thus improving their skills.
Three Advantages & Disadvantages
Controversy/Issues/Regulatory Implications
Summary
Team Project Evaluation
References
Nahavandi, D., Alizadehsani, R., Khosravi, A., & Acharya, U. R. (2022). Application of artificial intelligence in wearable devices: Opportunities and challenges. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 213, 106541.
Kurtz, S. M., Higgs, G. B., Chen, Z., Koshut, W. J., Tarazi, J. M., Sherman, A. E., ... & Mont, M. A. (2022). Patient perceptions of wearable and smartphone technologies for remote outcome monitoring in patients who have hip osteoarthritis or arthroplasties. The Journal of Arthroplasty, 37(7), S488-S492.
Sethuraman, S. C., Vijayakumar, V., & Walczak, S. (2020). Cyber attacks on healthcare devices using unmanned aerial vehicles. Journal of medical systems, 44(1), 29.
