Can digital applications and wearables improve perioperative care and surgical outcomes?
Digital applications and wearables offer promising tools for perioperative care, though challenges in accuracy, security, and adoption remain.
The rapid increase in real-time health information collected from wearable devices has allowed digital biomarkers to emerge as a promising tool to support perioperative care, including surgical prehabilitation, intra-operative guidance, and post-operative monitoring. Important challenges include the accuracy of generated information, data security risks, and slow adoption of new technologies. Active stakeholder engagement and following existing digital biomarker development/implementation frameworks may support using this technology to improve surgical outcomes.
Li et al. (Sat,) studied this question.