{"id":2068,"date":"2018-01-16T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T07:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2018-01-16T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T08:15:24","slug":"technological-innovation-in-the-healthcare-sector-is-welcomed-by-gcc-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/technological-innovation-in-the-healthcare-sector-is-welcomed-by-gcc-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Technological Innovation In The Healthcare Sector Is Welcomed By GCC Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arab Health \u2013 the largest gathering of healthcare and trade professionals in the MENA region \u2013reveals that 45% of GCC residents find wearable technology, such as fitness trackers or smart watches, an effective way to monitor their personal health.<\/p>\n<p>In a GCC-wide survey commissioned by Arab Health 2018, 50% of respondents aged 18 to 24 were in favour of Smart Health Technologies and personalised healthcare options, reflecting an increasing trend of the younger health-conscious population seeking preventive care.Thewearable sensors market in the UAE and Saudi Arabia \u00a0isprojected to increase to $3.97 million and $3.08 million by 2018, respectively, supporting this emerging trend in the two largest populated markets in the GCC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2069\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dr.-Bon-Verweij-Headshot--293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dr.-Bon-Verweij-Headshot--293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dr.-Bon-Verweij-Headshot--768x787.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dr.-Bon-Verweij-Headshot--999x1024.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dr.-Bon-Verweij-Headshot-.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arab Health \u2013 the largest gathering of healthcare and trade professionals in the MENA region \u2013reveals that 45% of GCC residents find wearable technology, such as fitness trackers or smart watches, an effective way to monitor their personal health. In a GCC-wide survey commissioned by Arab Health 2018, 50% of respondents aged 18 to 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}