A significant part of psychiatric care is moving from the hospital to the home, from curative to preventive and from a collective approach to a more individual one. Wearables could accelerate this evolution. They can be used to monitor patients from a distance.

There are many useful parameters to measure, like heart rate, breathing and skin conductance, that reflect the amount of stress a patient is experiencing, as well as movement, motivity and sleep. By recognizing the signals that predict sickness or crisis it’s possible to provide feedback to the patient and send a caregiver in time.