Digital wearables are increasingly used to collect continuous patient data in clinical research, yet questions persist about whether the devices meet the standards of scientific evidence and whether they can meaningfully change trial outcomes.
Digital wearables are increasingly used to collect continuous patient data in clinical research, yet questions persist about whether the devices meet the standards of scientific evidence and whether they can meaningfully change trial outcomes.
It ends the usual way: a mountain of noisy data, zero clinical clarity, and a vendor claiming victory. Wearables will track sleep, steps, and heart rate while missing the actual disease. Regulators will stall. Sponsors will bury the endpoints. Patients become unpaid data janitors. Science gets a shiny gadget and a shrug. Rigor dies in committee.