With all the technological advancements within the last decade, people have been given endless opportunities to make life easier. The incessant need to discover something new directed the human race into believing that there’s always something to improve on, even if it seemed that we have everything that we need for the moment.
Technology has touched so many aspects of society such as education, work, medicine, communications and health. We all have been bound to the numerous advantages of technology and modernization, vanquishing olden ways that cannot help us any longer. Just recently, various names and brands have come into producing mobile applications to track one’s health in real-time, accurately and handily.
In the United States alone, a whopping total of 46 million users have registered, downloaded and signed-up for these mobile health applications to monitor their own health easily and more conveniently. These users comprise 1/3 of the whole American population and there are even greater numbers scattered all over the planet.
Aside from the usual benefits of owning a mobile handset with wireless services on it, people have come to realize that health should not be compromised and fused it with easily understandable programs and applications. These wonders of technology have the capacity to read heartbeats, work as a pedometer and some even can compute your body mass index. Some even offer endless opportunities to read tips on how to stay in shape.
From the time it was conceptualized, the jump in the number of users is quite unexpected as several studies concluded that the population nowadays is health-conscious, or at least starting to become that way. Also, there are device manufacturers who have taken the leap of faith and successfully produced wearable technology aside from mobile health applications.
It also had been presumed that based on the demand today, an intriguing total of 112 million wearables are said to be manufactured by 2018. These wearables will aid consumers in keeping close track of how exercise affects them and fitness is the top priority in manufacturing. There are also plans of producing wearable hoop trackers solely to be used by basketball players, measuring their development in shooting accuracy.
As of now, the gap between genders using wearables has been quite minimal, with 51.70% attributed to men and 48.30% directed to women users. The age bracket of 25-34 years old are said to be the top patrons of wearables and mobile health applications, 22% for the 35-44 age bracket, 17% for 45-54, 12% for those 55 and above and lastly, 9% for people aged 18 to 24.
Obviously, these feats of modernization appeal best to those who have created it, namely the Millennials and the Generation X factions.
On the other hand, fitness bands have been adored by younger generations (18-25) as they comprise the working class of the present era. Studies have shown that wearables and accessible health-related applications dramatically reduce patient costs, with a whopping 6% drop in hospital bills for consultations and medications.
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