Enhance the use of medical wearables through meaningful data analytics

Abstract

Increasing wearable usage in healthcare faces the challenge in low long-term adoption partially due to a redundancy of devices and lack of meaningful uses of wearable technology. This paper aims at the reality needs to present a holistic view of data analytics and medical wearables; and clarify how to apply analytics techniques to a wearable problem or opportunity. The paper addresses the challenges related to undergoing data analytics with medical wearables, details how certain data mining and analytical techniques impact on processing wearable data, and outlines a framework developed for using data analytics with medical wearables data.