Health Tracking Wearables and Apps Grew 21% in Past Year

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What’s your health-tracking pleasure, wearables or apps? Both are popular, but it’s fashion-forward wearables passively monitoring vitals that are getting more consumer love.

Examining this in the study “Connected Wellness: Tracking The Rise Of Health-Tracking Technology,” a PYMNTS and CareCredit collaboration, we surveyed 2,668 consumers on their preferences in digital health monitoring for wellness, finding that in the past year use of health-tracking wearables are taking a healthy lead over apps.

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We found that 96.5 million consumers used a device, app or website to track their health or vitals at least once in October 2022, with new users coming in a steady clip.

Per the study, “The use of health-tracking technologies has grown by 21%, a projected 21 million more U.S. consumers, since November 2021. This usage makes health-tracking technology the single most used connected health technology in the U.S. Roughly one-third of consumers used other connected health technologies last month, including telemedicine appointment portals and social exercise.”

Get the study: Connected Wellness: Tracking The Rise Of Health-Tracking Technology