feature Users will fi nd it especially convenient to keep track of how much fi tter they become over time, marked by a decrease in resting heart rate. Source: Leman Micro Devices integrated smartphone, users can monitor their own themes that an increasing number of consumers health, anytime, anywhere, enabling ongoing regular are using digital healthcare tools and that interest in monitoring of existing conditions such as high blood greater digital engagement continues to rise. Com- pressure, or occasional use for reassurance of normal bined with the increasing pressures on healthcare readings, for detection of acute conditions, or for systems and the need for greater e ciency driving progressive fi tness monitoring. the roll out of telehealth consultations as well as the appetite of the consumer for managing life through their smartphone, the time might have come for us The health landscape all to take medically-accurate health monitoring into our own hands on our phones. n The key to getting acceptance from the medical profession and integrating these self-measuring mobile devices into our future health care rests solely on whether they are able to provide results that are medically accurate. The advent of medically-accurate advent introduction monitoring using e-Checkup enabled smartphones opens up a considerable number of possibilities. blood oxygen saturation saturation du sang They will be able to be used during telehealth con- en oxygène sultations, for example, either during the online dis- blood vessels vaisseaux sanguins cussion with the doctor, or to provide measurements taken over a period of time. The hypertensive patient choke, to étouffer will be able to more easily monitor the e ectiveness convenience confort of their medication on a day-to-day basis and other conditions such as asthma can be monitored in this cuff brassard way too. Carefully regulated, the data generated by discern, to détecter widespread use of this technology could be valu- able to pharmaceutical companies, health insurers, hypoxemia hypoxémie providers of both private and public healthcare as index fi nger index well as research and even Artifi cial Intelligence (AI) within healthcare. indispensability caractère, nature indispensable Conclusion keep track suivre lung disease maladie pulmonaire With the millions of handsets already in use around occlude, to boucher, obstruer the world, smartphone companies saw a slowdown in sales in 2018, and are seeking a new driver to con- oximeter oxymètre vince consumers to upgrade their existing models. suffocate, to étouffer, suffoquer The top tier is already considerably invested in this driver being health. The “consumerization of health” surgery cabinet médical revolution is borne out by multiple statistics, includ- top tier peloton de tête ing the fact that there are 65m active daily users of Source: the top 10 health and fi tness apps in the USA alone ubiquitous omniprésent Anna Johnston, for Leman (Statista May 2018). McKinsey’s 2017 Consumer wrist poignet Micro Devices Health Insights (CHI) Survey found in its four main 28 N° 5 – Septembre 2019