By 2018, 81.7 million users will own a wearable fitness device, according to eMarketer. And while consumers dabble in the cool features and sleek user interface of their wearables, healthcare providers continue to ask one important question: Does this tsunami of patient-generated data ultimately belong in the medical record?
The answer will be largely dictated by patients themselves, many of whom have already begun to express a strong desire to share wearable data with their healthcare providers, said Harry Rhodes, director of HIM practice excellence at the American Health Information Management Association.
Yet, there are plenty of other data-related issues to address. Rhodes provided these four questions that every healthcare provider should consider:
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