Cancer Center Turns To Apple Watch for Breast Cancer Treatment
The app will connect to Polaris’ Polestar behavioral health outcomes management platform, and give both patients and healthcare providers a way of monitoring things like activity, moods, and sleep. Patients will reportedly be taught about their own behaviors, and might receive alerts if for instance they’re not getting enough exercise.
The project will cover people during two stages of cancer: the first immediately after they’ve been diagnosed, the second after treatment is finished. In both cases, the concern is how patients cope with anxiety and depression.
It hasn’t even been a month since people have started receiving their Watches and already we’re seeing medical centers taking advantage of the Watch’s ability to monitor behavior. I continue to believe that health will be one of the major reasons people will purchase this product in the years to come. Not only that, but the potential collection of data for medical research could lead to breakthroughs we couldn’t ever imagine.
But hey, it’s only an accessory.