The Wireless Body.

MEDICAL personnel; TELECOMMUNICATION; HISTORY of medicine; MEDICAL communication; MEDICAL technology; MONITOR alarms (Medicine); TELEMEDICINE; ARRHYTHMIA

The article discusses humans' use of wireless, wearable health care technologies that rarely deliver on promises of increased healthcare access for all as of 2022. Topics covered include the historical use of Holter's heart monitor which raised privacy issues, and wireless physiological tracking's opportunity for new health interventions and for invasive forms of surveillance. Also noted is the technology's possible screening of whole populations at a time, and of the private workplace.