Category
Lifestyle
Assisted Choices
Trend cluster
Category
Fashion-Enabled
Monitoring
Medical practices are enhanced through fashionable clothing.
4.1
Trend score
Trend
What is the Fashion-Enabled Monitoring trend?
Fashion-Enabled Monitoring: Medical professionals are creating clothing items that enhance their ability to monitor or help patients, without the clothing items being inconvenient or unsightly. These innovations reveal a growing focus in adaptability, patient comfort and immediate care in the medical world, and ease some of the smaller lifestyle inconveniences that illnesses can bring about.
Trend themes
Themes within the Fashion-Enabled Monitoring trend
Three behaviours holding the trend together01
Fashionable Wearable Medical Tech
Medical professionals are exploring functional and fashionable wearables for enhanced patient care.
02
Improved Patient Experience
Healthcare providers are innovating to improve the overall experience of patients and the hospital environment.
03
Sensors for Monitoring Health
Fitness tracking has spilled over into the healthcare industry as technology is developed to aid post-operative recovery and other medical complications.
Industry implications
What the Fashion-Enabled Monitoring trend means for industry
Where the trend changes the playbookFor
Healthcare
Medical professionals must continue to evolve as helping patients in innovative ways has become even more paramount than ever before.
For
Fashion
Design and style are becoming increasingly important in the healthcare industry to build trusting relationships between patients and industry professionals.
For
Wearable Technology
Wearable tech has transformed from a device for fitness tracking to a powerful medical tool for tracking health data, emergency notifications and more.
Workshop question
What are some of the ways your brand can ease consumers' burdens, within its area of expertise?
Trend signals
Trend signals for Fashion-Enabled Monitoring
Trend score 4.1 out of 10, from popularity 60%, activity 55%, freshness 8%.
Popularity60%
Activity55%
Freshness8%
Audience
50%Men
50%Women
- Gen Alpha
- Gen Z
- Millennial
- Gen X
- Boomer
Market
North America
Europe
Asia-Pacific
South America
Africa
Evidence
Examples of the Fashion-Enabled Monitoring trend
4 featured examples from Dec 13, 2016 to Jan 16, 2018CategoryTech
Medically Focused Smart Clothes
The Xenoma E-Skin Pajamas May Revolutionize Medical Care
Xenoma's e-skin pajamas offer potential for remote patient monitoring and other medical applications.
CategoryFashion
Emergency Notification-Sending Shoes
These Smart Sneakers for Seniors Help in an Emergency
The wearable technology industry can explore the development of stylish and functional safety devices for seniors.
CategoryLifestyle
Patient-Centric Clothing Lines
Inga Wellbeing Makes Fashionable Alternatives to Hospital Gowns
Disruptive innovation opportunity: Fashion designers can tap into the emerging market of patient-centric clothing, offering stylish alternatives to traditional hospital gowns.
CategoryTech
Stroke-Monitoring Recovery Suits
Bart Klaassen's 'INTERACTION System' is a Suit Full of Sensors
The development of the INTERACTION System's sensor-enabled medical suit presents opportunities for medical device manufacturers to create new products that utilize similar technol…
