Telemonitoring, Wearables, and IoT Devices

Wearables and connected devices can reveal activity, gait, exercise, sleep, or symptoms between visits. Collecting a signal also creates a duty to define who reviews it, when they act, and what happens after hours. Device accuracy, patient context, privacy, workload, and a clear stop rule matter as much as the data itself.

Questions for practice

• Which problem would this address, and what outcomes matter to the person receiving care?
• What evidence supports this application, population, and setting?
• What skills, safeguards, resources, and accountability would its use require?
• What would justify continuing, changing, or stopping its use?

This is an introductory overview of a domain in the PhysioFuturist model. Specific products and clinical uses need their own evidence assessment.

Read the Perspective for the reasoning behind these questions or explore the autonomy-accountability continuum.

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