Talk of Wearable Devices Percolating Into Routine Clinical Care

Medscape July 7, 2022
Megan Brooks

Over roughly the past decade, there has been rapid development and swift uptake of consumer technology capable of recording physiologic data relevant to cardiac health, including physical activity, heart rate, electrocardiograms, and episodes of atrial fibrillation (AF).

And healthcare providers are taking notice, according to a new analysis of 21,013,729 provider notes from 492,192 adult primary care patients (60.7% female; mean age, 48 years).

The analysis showed that annual mention of wearable devices with cardiac sensors increased from 0.0002% of provider notes in 0.0006% of patients in 2005 to 0.14% of notes in 0.89% of patients in 2019.

“By 2019, consumer wearable devices were mentioned in medical notes for nearly 1% of adult primary care patients. This represents a dramatic...

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