The AMA's Center for Digital Health and AI, working with Medscape, surveyed 2,222 physicians in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and Spain earlier this year — the first study of its kind to look at consumer wearable data across multiple health systems at once.
The results show a profession that has embraced the technology personally, but can't act on it professionally.
More than 80 percent of physicians use a wearable themselves, roughly three-quarters say the data can benefit patient care, and only 3 percent have never looked at a patient's device data.
Yet in no country have more than 6 percent of physicians made that data part of their clinical workflows.
The study's most useful insight for healthcare organizations comes from comparing the small group of physicians who have integrated wearable data with the larger group that hasn't.
Where they differ is confidence: integrated physicians rated the job of turning device readings into clinical decisions as far more doable, and they reported considerably more patients asking them to engage with the data.
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