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  • Digital Health and Wearable Technology
  • Electronic Health Records Integration
  • Longitudinal Health Data Analysis

Background:

  • Wearable devices offer continuous objective activity and health data collection.
  • Integration of wearable data into electronic health records (EHRs) is increasing.
  • Understanding patient engagement patterns and factors influencing wearable device use is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify 1-year patient engagement rates with wearable devices integrated into EHRs.
  • To identify demographic and behavioral factors predicting sustained wearable device engagement.
  • To analyze long-term (1-year) wearable device usage in a large patient cohort.

Main Methods:

  • Survival analysis of connected device data from an academic medical center (2015-2022).
  • Evaluation of time to early disengagement among wearable device users.
  • Multivariable Cox proportional hazard regression to identify predictors of 1-year engagement.

Main Results:

  • Analysis included 8616 patients; 68.13% maintained active wearable device engagement at 1 year.
  • No significant engagement differences were found between gender or race categories.
  • Younger age (18-34 years) and lower daily step counts (<5000) predicted higher disengagement risk.

Conclusions:

  • Wearable device engagement is substantial but varies by demographic and behavioral factors.
  • Enhancing engagement is crucial for maximizing wearable technology benefits in healthcare.
  • Future development should focus on improving sensor capabilities and user retention for better health outcomes.