This is personalized via wearables data and patient-reported data. What does Quest Health have to gain? Quest will be adding Pack Health’s platform to its Extended Care services—its suite of health tech solutions that enhance diagnostics.

Also notably missing were smartwatch and wearable announcements, indicating that interest in this segment has cooled.

The news: The wearables market may soon be getting some serious competition from fashion brands like H&M and its smart clothes, per Bloomberg. How it works: Alan Boehme, H&M’s chief technology officer, is looking at smart clothing as an alternative to smartwatches and wearables. Smart clothing is not new—clothing has had integrated sensors since the late ’80s.

One area that will benefit from 5G’s low latency is wearables, such as smart glasses, hearables, and more capable smartwatches. VR headsets and smart glasses are device categories that have a lot of near-term potential with 5G.

Priced at $99.99, the Halo costs less than an Apple Watch ($199 for Series 3, $399 for Series 6) and Google Fitbit ($299.95 for Sense smartwatch, $129.95 for Fitbit Charge 4 tracker), a ploy that may lead some health insurers to offer it to members as an incentive to improve healthy lifestyle habits or to appeal to more price-conscious consumers.

This would also enable more continuous security updates, as most of the data will reside in the cloud. 5G should also make wearables more common. With low latency, much of the computing for AR can occur in the cloud, allowing for much smaller batteries and computers in devices like smart glasses or VR headsets.

Fitbit ranked 5th for wearables developers’ market share, claiming 5.9% of the global market in 2020, according to IDC’s tracking. Since being acquired by Google, Fitbit has begun clinical research to determine how its wearable can measure blood pressure. It also rolled out a new sleep tracking feature.