Patients more likely to share health data via smartphones than wearables: Penn Medicine study

Becker's Healthcare February 7, 2020
Andrea Park

In the months after being discharged from the hospital, patients assigned to send health data to researchers using a smartphone app were more likely to do so than those tasked with transmitting data through a wearable device, a new study from Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine found.

Of a group of 500 patients admitted to two local hospitals, half were tasked with sending activity tracking data to researchers after discharge via an app on their phones, while the other half were asked to use a wearable device to do so, according to a news release. If patients failed to synchronize their data for four straight days, they were sent email, text message or voice message reminders.

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