Wearable Noise Is Exploding - Trust Is the Filter
A practitioner perspective by Dr. Kenneth Civello, Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Our Lady of the Lake Hospital.
The argument
Wearables produce huge volumes of physiological data that clinicians cannot yet trust for decisions. The key question is whether wearable data is reliable enough to reduce review burden, and device makers must design in validated clinical credibility rather than marketing it afterward.
Why we picked it
The HTC editorial desk curates practitioner perspectives that pass a simple test: would a health system executive, product leader, or investor act differently after reading it? This piece by Dr. Kenneth Civello earns its place - it comes from the operating trenches of wearables & rpm, not the conference stage, and it takes a position specific enough to disagree with.
The bigger picture
The data-infrastructure backdrop makes this conversation timely: TEFCA crossed one billion exchanged health records this summer, up from 10 million in under a year (our coverage), while KLAS reports EHR purchasing fell 40% as capital shifts from record systems to the AI and analytics layered on top of them. Interoperability is no longer the constraint - deciding what to do with flowing data is.
Read it alongside our own reporting in Wearables & RPM, where the data behind this debate is covered daily on the HTC Wire.