With wearable sports and activity trackers expected to become a $1.4 billion industry in less than two years, healthcare providers are wondering how they might fit into the clinical landscape.
The answer may very well lie with analytics – taking data from those devices and making it useful for doctors. Earlier this year Vinod Khosla, one of Sun Microsystems co-founders, predicted that over the next decade data analytics “will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.”
