Wearable health value declines as adoption rises

Wearable device use among US adults climbed from 30.2% in 2020 to 41.1% in 2024, according to a Yale School of Medicine study of 17,395 participants. Daily wear rates stayed flat at roughly half of users. Willingness to share data with doctors dropped from 81.3% to 73.4%, and actual sharing reached only 19.2% in 2024.