BAE Consulting Group confirmed that the growing desire of residents of the Gulf
region to acquire the latest tools, equipment and communication smart devices
and their intense eagerness to stay online on social networks will provide a
huge amount of opportunities for the wearable devices sector, which monitors
the health of people and levels of fitness they have.
Philip
Rice, an expert in the health care sector of the Group, said that in a time
when diabetes and heart disease outbreaks rapidly among the population of the
region as it affects 1 of all ten people in the Gulf states, according to
recent figures issued from the International Federation of diabetes, but the
public health officials and government agencies continue to rely on traditional
awareness campaigns in order to raise awareness of the disease and work to
reduce its spread.
Rice
explained that the mobile phone technology can make a big difference and
contribute to maintaining the health and well-being of people, especially those
living in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where the population is
relatively little in these countries plus the simple cost of professional
applications to monitor the health and daily practices mean that the
possibility of connecting the population with health monitoring is possible and
easy to apply.
He
said that "BAE" group researches indicate that more than 300
companies in the world working in the field of "digital health" also
technology viable to wear sector has witnessed tremendous growth in the recent
period.
He
pointed out that researches have worked on international best practices in management
and evaluation of diabetes disease and assessment and analysis of the current
situation in addition to doing demographic statistics for the number of Qatari
and non-Qatari who present in the state.
Rice
noted that innovative ways and methods that take advantage of technology can
takes into account the personal needs of patients also mobile phones are
contributing to facilitate the flow of information and thus educate individuals
to learn more about their condition and directe them to
the concerned doctor.