Defining new digital measures from wearables and consumer devices in clinical trials

Although consumer wearables were not initially designed for clinical research, this has been changing over the last few years to the point that some predictions say that by 2025 at least 70% of clinical trials will use these kinds of devices. Wearables can potentially improve the data collection and analysis in clinical research by constantly tracking clinical measures remotely, both new and traditional, which may be harder to measure by conventional means (e.g gait, sleep, etc).