Wearable devices- from healthy lifestyle to active ageing

As wearable and mobile technologies are becoming more available and can provide more information and knowledge to users, new challenges and opportunities opens for industry and healthcare organizations. The future use of wearable by health and wellbeing users, from fitness tracking, to chronic disease management and independent living will create ecosystem for the population that will be adapted to their changing needs along lifespan in health and disease. This will also drive a change in healthcare delivery models and the relationship between patient and healthcare providers. It raises challenges for the healthcare systems as well as for the industry in implementing these new technologies, data privacy and security, regulation, adaptation of the systems to the individual and the growing amount of information in clinical practice and workflows. In this paper the vision, barriers, the gaps and opportunities will be discussed.