PYMNTS.com September 22, 2021
In the latest development in the push to use smartphones and wearables to track users’ health, Apple Inc. is looking into ways to use its devices to detect and diagnose mental health conditions. It’s part of a series of similar undertakings with implications for consumers’ most sensitive personal information — their health data — and what companies can do with it.
Recent PYMNTS research finds that consumers are not turned off by the idea, per se. In the August Generation HealthTech Report done in collaboration with Rectangle Health, researchers found that 76% of respondents are “very” or “extremely” interested in using digital tools and methods to monitor health status, as well as to help manage healthcare payments.
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