Highlights • Wearable devices will play an increasing role in outbreak management. • An increasing range of actionable physiology can be captured non-invasively. • Community deployment for syndromic surveillance could assist public health measures. • Privacy and data ownership issues in the use of wearables still need addressing. Optimal management of infectious diseases is guided by up-to-date information at the individual and public health levels. For infections of global importance, including emerging pandemics such as COVID-19 or prevalent endemic diseases such as dengue, identifying patients at risk of severe disease and clinical deterioration can be challenging, considering that the majority present with a mild illness. In our article, we describe the use of wearable technology for continuous physiological monitoring in healthcare settings. Deployment of wearables in hospital settings for the management of infectious diseases, or in the community to support syndromic surveillance during outbreaks, could provide significant, cost-effective advantages and improve healthcare delivery. We highlight a range of promising technologies employed by wearable devices and discuss the technical and ethical issues relating to implementation in the clinic, focusing on low- and middle- income countries. Finally, we propose a set of essential criteria for the rollout of wearable technology for clinical use.
【초록키워드】 COVID-19, public health, Diseases, hospital, Infection, risk, Infectious disease, Outbreaks, Surveillance, outbreak, management, healthcare, implementation, Patient, Pandemics, Community, privacy, information, disease, Endemic, severe disease, Clinical deterioration, physiological, criteria, Support, Clinical use, public health measures, mild illness, prevalent, highlight, IMPROVE, majority, assist, 【제목키워드】 public health, Diseases, outbreak, management, response, physiological, Continuous,