Excerpt of podcast episode 2: Home Healthcare Gadgets, adapted to article format. For full episode click here.
What is a home healthcare gadget?
It’s a device that can be used by any person at home with little training. There is some fundamental understanding that you need to have, for example having a thermometer and knowing what is a fever and what isn’t. There are many gadgets that have been developed apart from the thermometer, but the thermometer is a common one.
Do you think Covid-19 had an effect on the home healthcare industry?
Of course, there’s products like the pulse oximeter, that became popular during that time, because it was an indicator of when to go to the hospital. The pulse oximeter is put on the index finger and it measures the saturated oxygen. If you go on the internet, you’ll learn how to use it. During this time, doctors and hospitals were saturated with patients and to alleviate the amount of people going to see if they had covid, these kinds of gadgets delegated some of the monitoring to the individual.
What is a product you’ve found in the recent year that you consider “innovative”?
EyeQue Vision Check: an at-home vision monitoring tracker. It’s perfect for people that want to monitor their vision in between seeing their ophthalmologist. I remember a period in my life where my vision was getting worse and I had to go twice a year to get my eyes checked. This kind of product sounds like it could help people going through something similar.
Hyperbaric Chamber: This was a product mostly seen in hospitals and clinics but is being modified for home usage. The hyperbaric chamber administers oxygen at a higher pressure and has been used for years by scuba divers, athletes, and veterans. It’s perfect for cancer and diabetic patients in their various treatments. This is one home care gadget I would love to have and know it would be beneficial to my health.