Minimizing Chronic Illnesses Through Real-Time Wearable Technology
The Samsung Watch application lets patients track their health while giving their health consultants access to critical vitals, like physical activity, heart rate, heart rhythm, blood oxygen saturation, and skin temperature.
The Client/Industry
Their primary focus is cardiac care through AI-driven tools to monitor vitals like heart rate, SpO2, and body temperature
Enhancements
Analyze your real-time health metrics
Services Delivered
- Health tracking platform
- Samsung Privileged Health SDK Integration
- Vitals integration
The Tech
- Kotlin
- AWS cloud services
Project Overview:
Shifting Towards Preventive & Remote Healthcare
American life expectancy is declining due to systemic healthcare failures that prioritize treatment over prevention, particularly affecting younger and middle-aged adults. Recognizing the urgency of this crisis, Folio3 Digital Health was approached by a healthcare provider to develop a cutting-edge software solution focused on advancing prevention, early intervention, and patient well-being.
Our expertise lies in wearable technology, such as fitness tracking and real-time data integration for proactive care. We develop advanced solutions to prevent chronic illnesses by detecting medical conditions in their early phases. With tools like Samsung’s Privileged Health SDK, we deliver accurate tracking of critical health indicators like ECG, heart rate, oxygen saturation, and skin temperature.
Project Objectives
A major gap was identified between patient self-care and provider-led monitoring. Why? Because patients lacked the tools to track their health, and providers had no digital means of accessing their vitals in real-time. The main objectives fulfilled by creating the Samsung Watch application and its integration with the providers’ systems were to:
- Get Samsung Watch users closer to knowing more about their health.
- Integrate the users’ health vitals into the provider’s system to facilitate preventive care.
- Minimize chronic diseases by providing access to critical health data.
- Reduce overall healthcare costs through early detection and timely intervention.
Solutions We Delivered
Tracked Parameters
Our primary goal was to integrate health vitals on a centralized platform that could be used for health analytics to tap into overlooked health vitals.
Health tracking marked the first step toward utilizing data for early disease detection and prevention. Vitals, such as heart rate, ECG, and blood oxygen saturation, are monitored to assess cardiac activity; processed in real time or stored for future use, providing timely alerts and preventing strokes or cardiac arrests.
The platform utilized Samsung Watch sensors to track the following health vitals:
- Parameter
- Accelerometer
- Heart Rate
- PPG Green
- ECG
- Blood Oxygen (SpO2)
- Skin Temperature
- Description
- Monitors movement and physical activity
- Measures the user’s heart rate in beats per minute (BPM)
- Captures photoplethysmogram data for heart vitals and SpO2 accuracy
- Monitors heart rhythm and detects irregularities
- Measures blood oxygen saturation levels
- Measures the user’s body temperature through skin
- User Benefits
- Daily activity tracking accumulates centralized actionable insights for data-driven health outcomes.
- Heart rate insights enable healthcare providers to monitor stress or fatigue and intervene proactively.
- Adds precision to the measurements of heart rate and blood oxygen saturation
- Makes early detection possible for diseases such as arrhythmias, diabetes, and heart conditions, preventing severe complications
- These insights help providers monitor respiratory health and manage conditions like COPD effectively.
- Alert providers with changes like fever development indicating infection and provide support
Development Highlights
- Advanced SDK Integration
:
Folio3 integrated Samsung’s Privileged Health SDK to capture precise and efficient data across overall health parameters. - Intuitive User Interface:
The UI looks flawless and easily navigable, displaying all the user’s health parameters. - Real-Time Data Pipeline
The durable infrastructure enables unhindered syncing of health vitals between Samsung Watch and the web server.
Business Impact
- Advanced SDK Integration
:
With continuous monitoring of their health vitals at their grasp, they are now more aware of what’s going on with their bodies. - Provider Oversight
Providers now have the means of monitoring users’ health conditions from distant locations, curtailing the need for in-person appointments and identifying potential health concerns for preventive measures. - Reduced Healthcare Costs
Both users’ self-care and provider oversight will lead to the build-up of chronic illnesses, hence preventing complications, which will not only reduce hospital visits but also minimize the need for invasive diagnostics.
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