MedTech Boston June 12, 2019
Wearable medical devices and diagnostics in healthcare are quickly becoming increasingly common, with news articles frequently delving into new wearables and how they might impact patient care. This makes sense, as from 2012 to 2018 wearable medical products in development and under study grew at a 47% annual growth rate, based on the number of clinical trials starting each year from ClinicalTrials.gov.
In this analysis, we look at the medical wearables category as a whole to extract trends, dissect where current early-stage wearable companies are focusing their innovation efforts, and evaluate market opportunities. This is a continuation of a previous article on medical devices and diagnostics that collect patient objective data, where musculoskeletal and well care analyses both included wearables...