The Benefits of Consumer Wearables

There is an increased acceptance for wearables among certain patient populations. American Academy of Sleep Medicine has a clinical practice guideline around the use of actigraphy to evaluate certain sleep disorders like insomnia and circadian rhythm, sleep-wake disorders. The algorithm that's used to judge sleep or wake or in many cases, sleep staging is really a black box. These wristworm devices are not usually cleared by the FDA. They cannot be manually scored.