In 2050, Daniel Kraft says, a patient’s “digital exhaust” from a wearable device will track baseline changes, revealing diseases before they start.
What’s going to be the art of the possible next year, or even this year, when your patient’s “digital exhaust” from a simple consumer wearable can give you insights into their real-time blood pressure, their sleep, their activity? What’s going to be very interesting is not looking at any one spot in time, but the changes in baseline from an individual, because we all have different baselines.
Part of the physical exam that you’ll be doing virtually, and when you see a patient in the clinic, will be to interrogate their “digitome.” Has their resting heart rate gone up 20 points in the past week or two? Is something going on that indicates not just sleep apnea, but an impending heart attack or
We’ll learn from thousands and millions of data points — and Verily’s baseline trials are doing some of this — what does that digital fingerprint look like of certain diseases early at stage 0, before that acute event happens? Any views expressed above are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of WebMD or Medscape.All material on this website is protected by copyright, Copyright © 1994-2025 by WebMD LLC. This website also contains material copyrighted by 3rd parties.
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