CTA February 28, 2017

As the role of consumer health and fitness technologies evolves across the medical industry, the U.S. could reach a “critical mass” of physicians using patient-generated data from devices such as wearables by 2020, according to new research released today by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™. The report, Wearable Health and Fitness Technology in U.S. Medical Care, lays out the opportunities, challenges, regulatory drivers and industry initiatives that will drive the broad use of patient-generated health data in clinical settings in the next three years.

“A range of technological and social forces are converging that will make patient-generated health data an important part of the clinical landscape by 2020,” said James Mault, MD, FACS, vice president and chief medical officer, Qualcomm...

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