HIT Consultant April 12, 2023
There’s an ongoing debate regarding the role that consumer health technology, like wearable health devices (i.e., smartwatches), can play in diagnostics, now and in the future. Because this is a relatively new technology, the scope of its potential impact is, at present, only scraping the surface.
Even so, smartwatches and their connected health apps are reshaping the healthcare industry. This technology has the ability to not only make personalized healthcare more widely accessible, but its predictive capabilities are also redefining the way we think of diagnostic and pre-diagnostic tech. And, yes, like any developing technology, it has its own particular brand of drawbacks.
How is health tech currently being deployed in diagnostics?
Somewhere around half of U.S. consumers monitor their...