Half of American use fitness trackers on daily basis

Clinical Innovation December 19, 2017
Cara Livernois

Over half of Americans (51 percent) report using a wearable fitness tracker at least once a day, according to a report conducted by Researchscape International.

Fitness wearables are an increasingly common method to collect patient data, and this report aimed to outline how patients use their wearables. The report contains data collected from 1,041 consumers from November 2017.

Findings included:

• 40 percent have used a wearable device for tracking their health, exercise or sports performance.
• The main uses for trackers include measuring steps (39 percent), calories burned (36 percent), heartbeat (31 percent), distance (28 percent) and sleep quality (25 percent).
• 76 percent would review wearable devices as very or extremely valuable if they could automatically calculate calories consumed. Similarly,...

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