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UPDATED BYBrennan Whitfield| Jun 30, 2026
REVIEWED BYEllen Glover| Jun 30, 2026
Summary:AI-driven wearables are revolutionizing healthcare by turning daily data into actionable insights. With smart rings, watches, and biosensors, patients can track everything from sleep to heart health, allowing providers to create highly personalized care plans.
moreAI-driven wearables are revolutionizing healthcare by turning daily data into actionable insights. With smart rings, watches, and biosensors, patients can track everything from sleep to heart health, allowing providers to create highly personalized care plans.
Wearable technology in healthcare aims to shake up the industry and empower patients with granular data that leads to actionable insights. With wearables, patients have the ability to collect their own health data and report it in a digital format, eliminating the need for in-person appointments. Insurers and providers have also bought into wearable technology, relying on data collected from health monitoring devices to inform more personalized and accurate health plans. Even companies have adopted wearables to encourage healthy habits among office workers and employees working from home.
What Is Wearable Technology in Healthcare?
Wearable technology in healthcare refers to devices that patients attach to their bodies to collect health and fitness data, which they may provide to doctors, health providers, insurers and other relevant parties. Examples include fitness trackers, blood pressure monitors and biosensors.
With the introduction of artificial intelligence, wearable devices are reshaping personal and professional health spaces. By utilizing machine learning algorithms, wearables have gone from simple data loggers to sophisticated tools that analyze health metrics to provide personalized insights. AI is also being incorporated into wearables to help patients monitor their health and get diagnoses. With their enhanced benefits, the global wearable industry is expected to grow to $152.82 billion by 2029.
Here are some of the top companies driving this growth by reshaping the patient experience through wearable technology in healthcare
Everyday Health Wearable Medical Devices
Ōura
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Headquarters: Oulu, Finland
Devices: Smart rings
Oura develops a wearable smart ring that tracks over 50 health metrics including heart rate, heart rate variability, body temperature, sleep stages, activity levels and stress. The ring’s advanced sensors provide continuous monitoring, enabling users to optimize sleep quality, manage stress, and track fitness performance
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Samsung Electronics
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Headquarters: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Devices: Smart watches, smart rings
Samsung Electronics manufactures wearable devices designed for health monitoring and fitness tracking. The Galaxy Watch, for example, offers health features such as heart rate monitoring, sleep tracking, stress management and advanced metrics like electrocardiogram (ECG) data, blood pressure monitoring and sleep apnea detection
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Garmin
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Headquarters: Olathe, Kansas
Devices: Sport watches, heart rate monitors, sleep monitors
Garmin develops a portfolio of wearable devices for health and fitness tracking across all ages, including smartwatches, activity trackers and specialized health monitoring wearables. The company’s Venu series and other smartwatches deliver continuous health insights through advanced sensors that track heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, sleep quality, stress levels and body patterns
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Withings
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Headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Devices: Smart watches, blood pressure monitors
Withings is a health and wellness company that created the first WiFi-enabled scale, and has since developed an ecosystem of FDA-cleared wearable devices that offer activity tracking, heart rate and sleep monitoring, oxygen saturation measurement, and body composition analysis. Its hybrid smartwatches also come with 1-lead ECG and thermometer capabilities
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Motiv
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Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Devices: Smart rings
Motiv Ring, a wearable smart ring, monitors physical activity, sleep and heart rate through continuous 24/7 tracking s track and adjust their goals while integrating with Google Fit or Apple Health
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Wearable Heart Monitoring
Apple
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Headquarters:Cupertino, California
Devices: Smart watches
Apple’s Apple Watch delivers comprehensive health monitoring through its wearable technology, enabling users to monitor heart health, store medical information and access critical health data. Apple Watches also feature an FDA-cleared ECG app, hypertension notifications, irregular rhythm detection and auto-enabled fall detection for users over the age of 65
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AliveCor
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Headquarters:Mountain View, California
Devices: Personal EKG machines
AliveCor develops AI-powered ECG devices and software for remote cardiac monitoring and diagnosis, including the Kardia line of devices. The company’s KardiaMobile device attaches to smartphones to record single-lead ECGs in seconds, while its Kardia 12L system delivers portable 12-lead ECG capability with AI-enabled detection of cardiac conditions, including life-threatening arrhythmias and heart attacks.
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Wearable Women’s Health Tracking
Evie
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Headquarters: Pleasanton, California
Devices: Smart rings
Evie, developed by Movano Health, is a medical-grade smart ring designed specifically for women’s health monitoring. The Evie Ring tracks menstrual cycles, fertility signals, sleep quality, heart rate, blood oxygen levels and daily activity patterns through advanced sensors, plus provides a free companion app for personalized insights
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Fitbit
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Headquarters:San Francisco, California
Devices: Smart watches, health and fitness trackers
Fitbit provides comprehensive health tracking through smartwatches and wearable devices that monitor heart rate, sleep and physical activity. The platform also extends beyond fitness tracking to offer health coaching powered by AI, including personalized insights on workouts, sleep, recovery and wellness
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Wearable Health Monitoring Devices
Nutromics
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Headquarters: Melbourne, Australia
Devices: Diagnostic patches
Nutromics develops a wearable “lab-on-a-patch” biosensor platform that uses micro-needles to enable continuous, real-time monitoring of health-critical biomarkers directly from the skin. It is applied for therapeutic drug monitoring (particularly vancomycin), with additional programs underway in sepsis, cardiology and acute care triage
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PatientPoint
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Headquarters: Cincinnati, Ohio
Devices: Remote patient monitoring software
PatientPoint offers remote patient monitoring software that enable medical practices to track patients’ health metrics outside the clinical setting. The company works with practices to verify patient eligibility, manage device logistics and facilitate patient onboarding. Its monitoring programs also allow medical staff to identify trends in vital signs and adjust treatment plans accordingly
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Owlet Baby Care
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Headquarters: Lehi, Utah
Devices: Infant wearables
Owlet Baby Care manufactures FDA-cleared wearable monitoring devices for infants to continuously track heart rate, oxygen levels and sleep activity. The company’s products provide real-time alerts for abnormal readings and personalized, age-appropriate wellness data accessible through its connected platform
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Wearable Biosensor Technology
WHOOP
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Headquarters:Boston, Massachusetts
Devices: Fitness and health trackers
WHOOP is a wearable technology company that delivers continuous health monitoring through its screen-free strap and companion app. The device tracks sleep, recovery and strain metrics using clinical-grade sensors and AI, providing personalized health insights accessible 24/7
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Abbott
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Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Devices: Glucose biosensors
Abbott develops continuous glucose monitoring biowearables and wearable health systems for diabetes management and consumer wellness. Its FreeStyle Libre systems provide real-time glucose monitoring for people with diabetes, while its Lingo system offers prescription-free glucose tracking for general health and wellness
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L’Oréal
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Headquarters:Clichy, France
Devices: Wearable sensors
L’Oreal’s My Skin Track UV, made by La Roche-Posay, is a battery-free wearable biosensor that measures UV exposure and environmental factors including pollen, humidity and pollution. Powered by near-field communication technology, the sensor pairs with a mobile app to deliver real-time UV tracking and actionable recommendations for skin protection
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Prolaio
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Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Devices: Connected medical monitors
Prolaio sends patients wearable devices — including ECG patches, blood pressure cuffs and smart scales — alongside a mobile app that enables remote monitoring of heart conditions. The platform aggregates data from these devices and applies AI-powered algorithms to generate cardiovascular insights, helping care teams track symptoms, personalize treatment and identify potential health complications.
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