MedPage Today October 13, 2025
Ramesh Sachdeva, MD, PhD, on privacy, cybersecurity, and clinical use of wearable data
At World Sleep 2025, a full-day course spotlighted artificial intelligence (AI)’s promise — and its limits — in sleep research and clinical care.
In this interview, Ramesh Sachdeva, MD, PhD, chief of pediatric critical care at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, explains how clinicians can responsibly fold patient-generated data from wearables into decision-making and the electronic health record. He outlines the biggest risk areas — privacy/consent, ownership, cybersecurity, and algorithmic bias — and offers practical safeguards to harness AI’s efficiencies without overstepping legal or ethical guardrails.
Following is a transcript of his remarks:
I think the takeaway points are one, that the use of wearable devices...
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