Singapore, July 16 -- The National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore is set to expand the use of wearable technology after a successful pilot found that continuous smartwatch-based monitoring could identify changes in patients' vital signs up to two hours earlier than routine manual observations, demonstrating its potential to allow clinicians to respond sooner, reduce disruptions to recovering patients, and enable nurses to spend more time on other aspects of patient care that require their clinical judgement.

Following the month-long pilot, which concluded in June, NUH is now working towards having up to 10 per cent of suitable inpatient vital signs monitoring be supported by wearable technology over the coming year.

The pilot wa...