The Latest Trends in Wearable Technology for Healthcare

Anna Taylor remembers being one of the first people in line to buy the Apple Watch when it debuted in April 2015. She already had a Fitbit step-tracker as part of an employee-sponsored health program that linked step counts to insurance premium reductions. As a data informaticist, she was excited to see what Apple had to offer.
“I hated it,” says Taylor, who is now the associate vice president of population health and value-based care for Washington state-based MultiCare. “It didn’t give me the data I wanted to manage, and I didn’t like the graphical user interface.” However, much has changed…