Discovering Digital Wearables to Improve Healthcare Quality and Continuity - Joao Bocas, CEO of Digital Salutem

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Listen to this global overview of the digital wearable landscape in this educational discussion I truly enjoyed with Joao Bocas, a global Top 100 Digital Health Influencer, Keynote Speaker, and Consultant, CEO of Digital Salutem, a company that enables healthcare companies to brand and market their digital health and wearable solutions as well as to implement digital transformation on an organizational level rapidly using world class technology. Connect with Digital Salutem, and Joao Bocas on Twitter and LinkedIn and follow his YouTube Healthcare Channel called "Digital Health and Wearable Series"!

1.17 Did sports inspire you to pursue starting a business in wellness, fitness, and healthcare wearables?

4.06 How do those who are not experts in digital wearables separate the signals from the noise among the growing availability of such devices?

5.28 What are some of the new products among consumer health or medical device wearables that pique your interest?

8:11 - About half of the consumers stop using wearables after 6 months. No engagement means no data, and no data means no value. 8:56 - How do you validate the accuracy of the data of the wearables as well as the privacy?

12:36 - What are the types of companies or wearable brands you consult the most?

14:09 - Has it become easier to bring a wearable device to the market?

16:09 - What are the key factors that play a role in adoption and utilization of wearables?

19:34 - COVID highlighted the potential for wearables and what can be done with digital health. A few months ago, we could not go to the hospital or go to the doctor because of the pandemic. So how do you monitor your patient's conditions, and what is important to act on urgently to make clinical or treatment decisions, the answer to all of which is in healthcare wearables.

21:23 - What tips do you suggest for businesses wishing to enter the market to differentiate their wearables?

23:24 - Can you share a glimpse of your organization at Digital Salutem and what services you offer?

26:11 - What are some best practices and metrics of how wearables have improved patient outcomes? There are medical devices now that tell diabetic patients how much insulin they need at a given time. There are types of wearables that provide you with 8-9 different datasets, and the busy provider usually selects 2-3 datasets. So wearables generate an abundance of data which is a challenge for clinicians to identify particular trends quickly to make important decisions. And if providers are successful in quickly filtering the data as rapidly as possible to identify an arrhythmia among all the data available, wearables can bring a lot of value in my opinion

29:11 - Do you believe wearables can bridge our fragmented system of healthcare?

30:54 - Slovenia is a small country, but it is the most digital economy in the world. All of the electronic health records are in one place in Slovenia. Three years prior, the country prioritized and planned ahead, and decided that in three years they would gather all electronic health records in one location. Finland and Denmark are two other countries that plan ahead, execute well, and are more open-minded in exploring innovative approaches to healthcare. I must say that these are smaller countries where implementing such technology may be simpler however the process of execution is the same so let's not make excuses if we live in larger countries with 300 million people, for example. Slovenia, Finland, and Denmark are three countries that incentivize and support innovation. Yet, because we are so fragmented in our healthcare system in the U.K. we are far behind in consolidating our healthcare patient records.