‘There’s a Sense of Urgency’: How Wearables Could Reshape Addiction Treatment

Behavioral Health Business February 1, 2023
Chris Larson

Wearables offer addiction treatment providers tantalizing opportunities to improve care outcomes.

Increasingly sophisticated devices are now available at affordable price points. Effortless data collection opens the door to more objectivity in a highly subjective field.

But there’s a serious problem. Researchers and practitioners still need to figure out what to do with the mountains of data that wearables could produce.

“From our standpoint, the best use [of wearables] right now is to collect that data to figure out how we can best utilize that data,” Dr. Greg Hobelmann, co-CEO of Havre de Grace, Maryland-based Ashley Addiction Treatment, told Behavioral Health Business.

Ashley Addiction Treatment announced an ongoing research program with the wearables company WHOOP in November.

Outside of research settings,...

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