The Impact of Wearable Technologies in Health Research: Scoping Review

• Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth Vol. 10; no. 1; p. e34384
• Main Authors: Huhn, Sophie, Axt, Miriam, Gunga, Hanns-Christian, Maggioni, Martina Anna, Munga, Stephen, Obor, David, Sié, Ali, Boudo, Valentin, Bunker, Aditi, Sauerborn, Rainer, Bärnighausen, Till, Barteit, Sandra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 25.01.2022
• Subjects: Accuracy; Blood pressure; Body temperature; Cardiac arrhythmia; Consumers; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Fitness Trackers; Heart rate; Humans; Intervention; Medical research; Multimedia; Pandemics; Rare diseases; Review; SARS-CoV-2; Sensors; Signs; Sleep; Software; Wearable computers; Wearable Electronic Devices; Wrist; United States > US; global health; wearable; population health; mHealth; consumer-grade wearables; low-resource setting; research; fitness trackers; commercially available wearables; mobile phone; review; tracker; big data; public health

Wearable devices hold great promise, particularly for data generation for cutting-edge health research, and their demand has risen substantially in recent years. However, there is a shortage of aggregated insights into how wearables have been used in health research. In this review, we aim to broadl...