The Impact of Healthcare Monitoring Technologies for Better Pregnancy

TLDR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of wearable devices for smart maternal healthcare services on the recognition and acceptance of using wearable IoT devices during pregnancy, and found that there are generally a large impact that pregnant women recognize and accept wearable devices.

Abstract: In recent years, the industry of wearable devices for pregnancies has been developing rapidly. The devices ranges from foetal monitors to multi-functional health examination instruments, which helped monitoring and management of maternal health indicators such as foetal heart rate, blood glucose, and blood pressure in home. Pregnant women and obstetricians are bounded together by wearable devices in an unprecedented way. With the universal use of the Internet of Things technology, the Smart Maternal construction started to raise people’s attention. This paper investigated the impact of the state-of-the-art monitoring techniques such as Internet of Things for smart maternal healthcare services. We have performed an experimental analysis based on a dataset of 315 samples of pregnant women using questionnaires. The results implies there are generally a large impact that pregnant women’s recognition and acceptance of using wearable IoT devices during pregnancy.