Tech With Clinical Impact

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 . . .