Popular Types of Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Though wearable technology has been used in the healthcare industry since the 1940s, it has advanced rapidly in the past few decades. Not only is the technology becoming more widely used for remote patient monitoring, but it is also increasingly applied outside the hospital amid a boom in consumer-facing healthcare wearables.In 2023, about 35% of U.S. adults reported using wearable healthcare devices, up 8 percentage points from 2018, according to a Morning Consult poll that surveyed 2,201 adults. The survey results were compared to a previous Morning Consult poll conducted in December 2018 among 2,201 adults.Not only did the utilization of wearable health technology grow between 2018 and 2023, but the survey also shows that a large proportion of wearable device users (61%) said they used the devices at least once a day in 2023.