After nearly 15 years of commercial availability, consumer-facing wearable devices are owned by one in three Americans, according to Health Care 2025: How Consumer-Facing Devices Change Health Management and Delivery. These devices include smart watches, apps, and machines providing continuous monitoring of a wide range of health metrics like glucose, ECG, and sleep.

These wearables produce massive amounts of data—making the consumer-centric clinical information existing in electronic health record-keeping systems (EHRs) seem very limited by comparison. This data could be very useful in clinical care management but not yet. The challenge for the organizations that supply wearable tech and the organizations that provide EHRs is determining how to automate the addition of digested and analyzed consumer wearable data to consumer records in EHRs. This will be increasingly critical…