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"In the future, diagnostic devices will be able to monitor a patient’s physiological or biochemical parameters continuously, under natural physiological conditions and in any environment through wearable biomedical sensors". This quote helps us understand that as technology continues to further improve over time, we will be able to measure and monitor more advanced body conditions that are present within the body like the mental, physiological, and biochemical parts of our body by wearing extremely improved health devices. According to "Wearable Technology; Role in Respiratory Health and Disease, wearable technology will be so far advanced that it will be able to further analyze our body and be able to tell us what or how our body is functioning. This will be possible by advanced technology such as wearable biomedical sensors, and this will allow us to measure more advanced body conditions.

Wearable Technology and Health
Living a healthy life may not just solely be dependent on eating healthy, sleeping well, or participating in a few exercises a week. Instead, it lies far beyond just a few things and rather is deeply connected to a variety of physiological and biochemical parts of the body in relation to physical activity and living a healthy lifestyle. In the past several years, the emergence of technological devices better known as “Wearable Technology” has really improved the ability to measure physical activity and has given simple users and even cardiologists to be able to analyze their quality of life.

Wearable Technology are devices that anyone can wear at all times throughout the day, even throughout the night. The options for devices range greatly as Phillips, Bertram, Rosenberg, Buman, and Lynch mention " These “wearables” include fitness bands, smart watches, and jewelry." They help measure certain values such as heartbeat and rhythm, quality of sleep, total steps in a day, and even help recognize certain diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. They promote ideas on how to improve one's health and stay away from certain impending diseases. These devices give daily feedback on what to improve on and what areas people are doing well in, and this motivates and continues to push the user to keep on with their improved lifestyle.

Over time, Wearable Technology has impacted the health and physical activity market an immense amount. According to Joshua Pevnick “The consumer-directed wearable technology market is rapidly growing and expected to exceed $34B by 2020." This shows how the Wearable Technology sector is increasingly becoming more and more approved amongst all people who want to improve their health and quality of life. Also, it shows that Wearable Technology is a well known market through out the world that has been around for a long time, and that it has endless potential.

Wearable Technology can come in all forms from watches, pads placed on the heart, devices worn around the arms, all the way to devices that can measure any amount of data just through touching the receptors of the device. In many cases, Wearable Technology is connected to an app that can relay the information right away ready to be analyzed and discussed with a cardiologist. In addition, according to Phillips, Bertram, Rosenberg, Buman, and Lynch, “wearables may be a low-cost, feasible, and accessible way for promoting PA.” Essentially, this insinuates that Wearable Technology can be beneficial to everyone and really is not cost prohibited. Also, when consistently seeing Wearable Technology being actually utilized and worn by other people, it promotes the idea of physical activity and pushes more individuals to take part.

Wearable Technology also helps with chronic disease development and monitoring physical activity in terms of context. For example, according to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine “Wearables can be used across different chronic disease trajectory phases (e.g., pre- versus post-surgery) and linked to medical record data to obtain granular data on how activity frequency, intensity, and duration changes over the disease course and with different treatments.” Wearable Technology is extremely beneficial in tracking and helping analyze data in terms of how one is performing as time goes on, and how they may be performing with different changes in their diet, workout routine, or sleep patterns. Also, not only can Wearable Technology be helpful in measuring results pre and post surgery, but it can also help measure results as someone may be rehabbing from a chronic disease such as cancer, or heart disease, etc.

Wearable Technology has the potential to create new and improved ways of how we look at health and how we actually interpret that science behind our health. It can propel us into higher levels of medicine and has already made an enormous impact on how patients are diagnosed, treated, and rehabbed over time. However, extensive research still needs to be continued on how to properly integrate Wearable Technology into health care and how to best utilize it. According to Andrea Aliverti "Although several issues still need to be solved, smart wearable technologies will provide unique opportunities for the future or personalized respiratory medicine." Despite the reaping benefits of Wearable Technology, a lot of research still also has to be completed in order to start transitioning Wearable Technology towards very sick high risk patients.