What if we combine Blockchain with Wearable Devices?

While Many eyes are focused on financial sector, the impact of blockchain on various other sectors is just interesting. We will witness in the next few years, it will surely mark the rise and fall of businesses within these sectors that either succeed or fail to adapt to transformative power that the blockchain can yield. There are several major challenges in healthcare that are currently being addressed with Blockchain and Technology. It is right that Blockchain can be highly beneficial to the global health, specially when it comes to smart wearable devices, that obviously in demand today.

The use of wearable devices ranges from practical tech such as digital smart watches that track health. According to survey, in the US there were 40% of millennials owns a wearable device. As this expands, modern technologies become increasingly important in monitoring our health and giving us access to personal data for self-management. Advancement in the fields of digital health, ehealth, telehealth, health information technology and telemedicine, have enabled remarkable improvements in health-care outcomes, and with mobile health (or mHealth) having a significant impact.

“Digital technologies, such as mobile wireless technologies, have the potential to revolutionize how populations interact with national health services. Digital health and specifically mHealth have been shown to improve the quality and coverage of care, increase access to health information, services and skills, as well as promote positive changes in health behaviors to prevent the onset of acute and chronic diseases.” - the World Health Organization stated

What are the benifits in having Blockchain in Smart wearable devices?

From convenience into necessity, this is how Blockchain transforms wearable technology where it brings transparency and security that allows the client to have more control over their own data and information, having more confidence that it’s totally secure. It will also makes the elderly, young and sick a better safety

MHealthcoin Smart Wearables

The branded special smart wearable device of mHealth measures user health data such as blood pressure and heartbeat rate continuously and submits to the app. With user approval, health data will also be submitted and analysed, which is a chatbot inside the mobile will base on the information to offer personalized health and workout advice for users to follow. The edition for elderly and children contains a telecommunication chip, which allows parents and care takers to track the real time location of the user. Under emergency situation, user can call for emergency service and reveal their location in simple clicks.

• FOR KIDS

GPS trace function is added for parents to trace the location of their children.

• FOR ELDERLY

SOS function is added for elderly to use under emergent situation and calling for help monitor their body situations

• FOR SPORT

A digital training system designed to keep users fit and motivated for life, features diversified exercises instruction video which will build a series of workouts based on users' individual goal and training preferences

• IOT FOR HOME APPLIANCE

To provide user a one-stop solution for a smarter living style, IoT technology will be developed to our smart devices in the later stage. Users can control their connected home anywhere at mHealthcoin APP or even wearable devices

Exercise and augmented reality game

Besides the smart wearable, the mHealthCoin app also provides interesting workout features to encourage exercise. It will incorporate different workout missions and campaigns in the app to challenge users. In order to increase the fun level of exercise, users can use the device’s GPS to find hidden objects to complete the mission during exercise in natural environment. There are also best result records and a virtual “training partner” to encourage users to break the record.

Exercise and Healthy lifestyle is the key for a long life, This is one of the easiest way to prevent chronic diseases such as Heart disease, Arthritis, Cancer, and Diabetes.

It is calculated that U.S. households spent $980 billion on health care in 2017, which works out to more than $3,200 per person.

The mission of mHealthcoin is to provide a platform for users to understand and monitor their health while gaining incentives through its exercises. Together with its Smart Wearables, every calories burnt contribute to the reward – which means users can earn mHealthCoin even in their sleep. All gained coins and token can be then used to redeem branded goods and services with discount.

Final Words.

There are numbers of companies creates and selling their own brands of wearable devices, but there’s a step missing, The blockchain. I could see the future how we live in the digital at decentralised world of Blockchain. Employees might see themselves getting smart watches and keep track of their duties, there will be a wearables for customers in shops, and im hospitals track their patients health better through wearable devices.

No one can deny it, The future will have decentralised wearable technology in all industries, and this future?

Isn’t that far away at all.

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