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Decentralized Infectious DiseaseTesting Market - Global In-
dustry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth,Trends and Forecast 2016
- 2024
January
WhatTears CanTell Us About Our Nutritional Health
Having adequate levels of nutrients in our bod-
ies is essential for proper growth, maintenance
and functioning of cells and tissues.The monitor-
ing of our nutritional health can therefore play
an important role in preventing deficiencies and
subsequent diseases.
January 18
WearablesWill Turn a New Corner — or DieTrying
One of eight digital health predictions for 2017 from MobileHealthNews
2016 was a rough year for wearables. It was the end of the line for Pebble, for Basis, for the
Microsoft Band, and, while Jawbone seems to be hanging on by a thread, there’s no question
that 2016 wasn’t kind to them. Fitness wearables have lost their luster as a hot new gadget
and at the same time haven’t really proved their worth as a health device. So what happens
next for the category?
Dan Ledger, the founder of Path Collaborative, which consults with wearable companies,
thinks wearables need a big re-invention to grow beyond a niche category for athletes and
health nuts.That could mean unlocking one of the areas of wearable tracking that no one
has managed to produce really high quality data in yet — namely stress and sleep.A wearable
company that can usefully and accurately track stress and help users reduce stress, or help
their users to improve the quality of their sleep, could open up a larger market. But ultimately,
he said, the next step for wearables might involve a more radical reinvention.
“I think if Apple and Fitbit haven’t cracked this, if the brute force approach with today’s tech-
nologies hasn’t produced anything, we have to be looking at other companies who are taking
these more radical approaches and saying ‘You know what? Maybe this doesn’t have to be
a wearable at all. Maybe we just need to question everything. Maybe this isn’t on someone’s
person 24/7, maybe it’s something someone uses for five minutes a day.’” Ledger said.“I think
the people who aren’t afraid to ask questions about form factor and modality will be the ones
who open up the next wave of innovation here.”
03 January