Monitoring The Fitbit

If you had the choice of living a longer and healthier life would you take it? Within the past decade, technology has been exceedingly improving and in more recent years has been prevailing in most working fields. In the field of health care, technology has been playing a large role in saving the lives of patients. With the advancement of technology, life monitoring devices such as the Fitbit, has grown extremely popular within the past couple of years in the form of wristbands. These wristbands are capable of tracking a person’s steps throughout the day, monitor their sleep, track their heart rate, measure their temperature and give them their daily statistics of how active they were throughout the day. In recent decades, obesity in the United …show more content…
The main argument of the opposing viewpoint is that these devices do not work because people don’t need anymore technology involved in their lives and that we can’t rely on what a wristband tells us. The accuracy when monitoring your health cannot always be spot on. This is especially the case when it comes to tracking the amount of calories people burn. Life monitoring devices rely on basic information such as age, height, and weight to calculate the amount of calories burned for the size and age a person is. This may be true that they can be inaccurate, but the accuracy of these devices are not the only thing that is helping people improve their health. These devices are still developing and are fairly new but according to Dr. Thierry “subject to further study, may be more promising” (Trooster, 2009). What Dr. Trooster means by that statement is that with the proper time and research put into monitoring a person’s health, there will be promising …show more content…
The purpose of these life-monitoring devices is to help us on the path to a healthier life. People mistaken these watches as fitness coaches that are suppose to automatically make them become fit. That is not the case when monitoring health, the main purpose is to only help a person and give them statistics while recording them throughout the day. It is up to the owner of the device to decide what they want to do with those numbers, whether it is improving those numbers or to ignore them. Life monitoring device’s only help improve the health of those who are willing to put in the time and effort. Also with these life monitoring device’s shift the balance of healthcare and creates a way for individuals to take control of their own health and focus on personalized health plans for themselves. To be able to take control of your own health, especially for the elderly means “it allows them to live independently in their own home and thus leads to a significant reduction in healthcare costs” (Khan, 2010). This statement show’s how patients can live a healthy life independently from the comfort of their own