Wearable fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients: strategies to improve the health of all of us using digital health devices

As the use of connected devices rises, an understanding of how digital health technologies can be used for equitable healthcare across diverse communities is needed. We surveyed 1007 adult patients at six Federally Qualified Health Centers regarding wearable fitness trackers. Findings indicate the m...

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Autores principales: Holko, Michelle, Litwin, Tamara R., Munoz, Fatima, Theisz, Katrina I., Salgin, Linda, Jenks, Nancy Piper, Holmes, Beverly W., Watson-McGee, Pamelia, Winford, Eboni, Sharma, Yashoda
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9038923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35469045
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00593-x
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author Holko, Michelle
Litwin, Tamara R.
Munoz, Fatima
Theisz, Katrina I.
Salgin, Linda
Jenks, Nancy Piper
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Watson-McGee, Pamelia
Winford, Eboni
Sharma, Yashoda
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description As the use of connected devices rises, an understanding of how digital health technologies can be used for equitable healthcare across diverse communities is needed. We surveyed 1007 adult patients at six Federally Qualified Health Centers regarding wearable fitness trackers. Findings indicate the majority interest in having fitness trackers. Barriers included cost and lack of information, revealing that broad digital health device adoption requires education, investment, and high-touch methods.
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spelling pubmed-90389232022-04-28 Wearable fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients: strategies to improve the health of all of us using digital health devices Holko, Michelle Litwin, Tamara R. Munoz, Fatima Theisz, Katrina I. Salgin, Linda Jenks, Nancy Piper Holmes, Beverly W. Watson-McGee, Pamelia Winford, Eboni Sharma, Yashoda NPJ Digit Med Brief Communication As the use of connected devices rises, an understanding of how digital health technologies can be used for equitable healthcare across diverse communities is needed. We surveyed 1007 adult patients at six Federally Qualified Health Centers regarding wearable fitness trackers. Findings indicate the majority interest in having fitness trackers. Barriers included cost and lack of information, revealing that broad digital health device adoption requires education, investment, and high-touch methods. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9038923/ /pubmed/35469045 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00593-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Litwin, Tamara R.
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Theisz, Katrina I.
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Holmes, Beverly W.
Watson-McGee, Pamelia
Winford, Eboni
Sharma, Yashoda
Wearable fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients: strategies to improve the health of all of us using digital health devices
title Wearable fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients: strategies to improve the health of all of us using digital health devices
title_full Wearable fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients: strategies to improve the health of all of us using digital health devices
title_fullStr Wearable fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients: strategies to improve the health of all of us using digital health devices
title_full_unstemmed Wearable fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients: strategies to improve the health of all of us using digital health devices
title_short Wearable fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients: strategies to improve the health of all of us using digital health devices
title_sort wearable fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients: strategies to improve the health of all of us using digital health devices
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9038923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35469045
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00593-x
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