Wearables and women’s healthtech: advancing measurement, monitoring and action via digital medicine
Nature Reviews Disease Primers, Published online: 28 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41572-026-00710-0
Wearables have the potential to address one of medicine’s major blind spots: the under-representation of women. They could help to close this gap by advancing measurement and monitoring into clinically meaningful insights of personalized data. However, realizing this potential requires validation, equity and clinical rigour to avoid reinforcing existing inequities.













