MedTech Dive April 22, 2021
Ron Shinkman

Dive Brief:

  • A new report by Forrester Research on wearables in healthcare concludes such devices assist consumers rather than clinicians, and that their shortcomings are numerous. The report was based on interviews with more than 40 patients and physicians.

  • “These products neither promise nor deliver healthcare. Why? They offer data, not answers to consumer questions, diagnoses, or treatment suggestions to help restore one’s health,” the report said. The issue with wearables is compounded by an issue that has been the demise of many technological advances in healthcare: Physicians are uninterested in monitoring information obtained remotely.

  • The bearish report concludes that “consumer technology and data may never play a leading role in helping physicians provide...

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Topics: Digital Health, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends, Wearables
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