March 23

I purchased a Garmin Watch a few years ago and absolutely love it. It keeps me in check with how active I am, monitors my heart rate, stress levels and much more. I hear people more recently discussing the number of steps they take in a day, and participating in step challenges in order to increase their overall health. I wonder if smart watches will become something that everyone or a mass majority of people will have as a way to prevent certain diseases such as heart attacks and strokes? And how will this impact our health? 

My first thought was about how we have improved with reaching medical professionals. Starting with Life Alerts and detecting falls in people but now the new Apple watches can detect a serious fall and tell whether the wearer of the watch is unconscious and dial 911. The watch can even send the location of the person to the 911 operators. It is crazy how technology is evolving and improving even in the last decade and I wonder where it will go in another decade and beyond. We are aware that people who wear these smart watches have even prevented death due to a heart attack because their watch detected an alarming increase in heart rate. Thus will this technology improve to detect other diseases such as strokes or seizures? Let’s hope so because think of the lives it will save!