Wearable Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Care

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To the Editor: In their review, Ginsburg et al. (March 21 issue)(1) highlight the promising potential of wearable digital health technologies (DHTs) to empower patients and provide them with a greater sense of control over their disease management. However, concerns regarding the potential drawbacks associated with constant self-monitoring, which could inadvertently contribute to coerced healthism, were not discussed justly. Many digitized health-promotion strategies tend to focus solely on individual responsibility for health, overlooking the broader social, cultural, and political dimensions of digital technology use.(2,3) Coercion can manifest in various contexts, such as employer wellness programs linking incentives to the use . . .