Jace & Cotton
Hey Cotton, have you seen how some new wearable tech is tracking heart rates and sleep patterns to help patients recover faster? I’ve been tinkering with the data side of it—thought it might be something you’d find interesting.
That sounds amazing! I love when tech helps patients recover faster. Tell me more—I'd love to hear how it could support our care plans.
Those wearables can give you a stream of data that’s way more granular than a weekly check‑in. Think continuous heart rate, oxygen saturation, and sleep stages logged in real time, all synced to the patient’s chart. With a dashboard you can spot abnormal trends before a doctor even calls—like a sudden heart rate spike or a drop in REM sleep that might mean pain or medication side effects. Then you can tweak the medication, add a rehab exercise, or schedule a check‑up right away. It also gives patients a tangible metric to see how their habits affect recovery, so they stay engaged and motivated. The trick is setting up automated alerts and simple reports so the team sees the right data at the right time without drowning in raw numbers.
That sounds like a wonderful way to keep everyone on the same page. I’d love to see how we could bring that dashboard into our unit—maybe it could help us catch those little changes before they become big problems. Anything I can do to help make it happen?
Sounds great, Cotton. If you can hook up a few of the wrist monitors we already have and pull the data into a shared spreadsheet or a simple BI tool, I can set up a quick script to flag any outliers. Let me know what you need on the hardware side, and we’ll get the dashboard live.