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The future of wearables & AI in healthcare

11 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this conversational segment, the speakers explore the future role of wearables in healthcare, emphasizing that while major IT firms dominate the commercial wearable market, there is value in developing non‑commercial, widely accessible devices to establish patient baselines. They argue that baseline data can greatly enhance understanding of health interventions. The discussion then shifts to the PGI project, highlighting its cutting‑edge approach of collecting ultra‑high‑resolution sensor data three times daily at a rate of 800 observations per second—approximately 40 times the resolution of standard visual data. Engineers involved can detect movements as small as one micron, a sensitivity far surpassing traditional X‑ray imaging, which detects changes on the order of one millimeter. The speakers convey enthusiasm for the potential of such precise data to transform healthcare monitoring and AI analysis.

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So I guess the most answerable question is, is a wearable in the future?
Yes, it's interesting. So yes, we have a wearable. I never really thought of it as a commercial product. And mostly I am well aware that the whole wearable space is going to be owned by the big IT companies. Having said that, I think we're going to make them. We have a wearable version, but we're going to make it more widely available because I think having patient baselines would be very, very helpful and actually help us understand what we're doing more as well. And lastly, your question about AI. It's one of the most interesting things I've ever worked on is what we're doing in PGI right now. So not to nerd out too much, but 3 times a day we collect this ultra, ultra high resolution data. It's, it's 800 observations per second. So it's 40 times visual. And for the engineers out there, we're detecting 1 micron of movement. An X-ray can only detect 1 millimeter of movement, and so we're looking at really, really tiny—