ABSTRACT
In these pages we have championed Wearables and the IoT as headliners of Health e-Everything. But it’s impossible at this early stage to know how these technologies will unfold, or what will be there ultimate impact on the industry. And there are concerns. As the capabilities and numbers of IoT devices continue to grow, will we be over-measured and burdened by our quantified self? And can wearables truly effect behavior change across the range of healthcare issues and constituents? Will we be overwhelmed by Big Data? As the volume and complexity of wearable data grows, the technology creates challenges for service providers that are transporting the data and the firms that are collecting and analyzing that data. One the great challenges will be to curate, manage and process data, at or near realtime.
