The wearable data your doctor actually wants: Key health metrics revealed
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Wearables can offer rough information about a person’s health, experts say, but only some metrics are medically useful.
PHOTO: HIROKO MASUIKE/NYTIMES
Simar Bajaj
NEW YORK – US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has called wearable devices, like smartwatches or smart rings, a way for people to “take control over their own health” and “a key” to the Make America Healthy Again agenda.
These devices, often called wearables, can provide a feed of useful data, including your step count, heart rate, sleep quality and calories burned.
