Opinion: Trustworthy data from consumer health devices can help solve stubborn health care challenges
Clinicians, researchers, and innovators need to collaborate on data integrity now, before bad consumer-generated data undermine consumer health devices and medicine.
Americans collectively spend more on pregnancy and childbirth than any other nation yet have the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the developed world. The U.S. is the only developed country in which maternal mortality is rising. And as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported recently, the U.S. has seen increases in preterm births for four consecutive years as well as alarming rates of pregnancy-related deaths among black and Native American women.
It’s a complex problem made worse by a lack of maternal health data, scant research funding, and fear that commercial and public investments in anything pregnancy-related are . According to a by the American College
