Health Affairs August 28, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wants to equip all Americans with wearables over the next four years. The premise: Patient-generated data and monitoring can help individuals take charge of their health, prevent or treat disease earlier, and reduce reliance on costly interventions. Nearly one in three Americans already use wearable devices for health and wellness.
But technology alone will not fully realize this vision. Historical experience within and beyond health care teaches that to maximize potential benefits, technological advancements must go beyond point solutions—that is, tools meant to solve specific, narrow problems—and occur within systems-level change.
For instance, the emergence of electricity as a power source more than a century ago did not immediately revolutionize industrial manufacturing; early adopters replaced steam...
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