You are here

  • Home
  • Online First
  • Enhancing decision-making in the Armed Forces through wearable technology: what do commanders think?

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Letter
Enhancing decision-making in the Armed Forces through wearable technology: what do commanders think?
  1. Natalie Taylor1,
  2. A S Willman1,2,
  3. M Eager3 and
  4. R M Gifford4
  1. 1Academic Department of Military General Practice, Research and Clinical Innovation, Birmingham, UK
  2. 2Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Birmingham, UK
  3. 3Department of Anaesthetics, Imperial College London, London, UK
  4. 4Academic Department of Military Medicine, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr A S Willman, Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, UK; a.willman{at}bham.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/military-2024-002710

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Effective decision-making in the military relies on robust data, yet service personnel (SP) and commanders often lack objective physiological information about physical performance, relying instead on subjective tools, for example, driver hours logbooks, to assess fatigue. Wearable technology promises the real-time provision of relevant physiological data to inform decision-making.1 2 Work is ongoing to develop monitoring technology to monitor the potential risk of heat illness,3 which is supported by Joint Services Publication 375.4 We are aware of several unreported projects at unit level which have used wearable technology aiming to improve SP performance. However, decentralised initiatives often lack a strong evidence base or Subject Matter Expert involvement, leading to potentially costly endeavours and limited benefits. On …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • X @taylor_ntaylor, @antonywillman

    • Contributors NT contributed to design, concept, data collection, analysis and write-up. ASW contributed to data analysis, write-up and final edit. RMG contributed to design, concept and data and reviewed the final draft. ME contributed to data analysis and write-up.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.