Becker's Healthcare April 26, 2022
Georgina Gonzalez

Although most patients want to use health and fitness wearable devices, cost, education and language remain as barriers, according to a study published April 15 in Nature.

The research came out of the National Institutes of Health All of Us Program and surveyed more than 1,000 adult patients across six healthcare centers.

They found that there was a strong desire for wearables, with 58 percent responding they would like a fitness tracker. Monitoring heart rate, counting steps and tracking fitness levels were all cited as reasons...

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