Compared to clinical data, these data, such as information on step count or sleep rhythm, provide a continuous picture of personal health, collected under everyday conditions and potentially available over many years and decades.
In this way, they differ from clinical assessments, which are generally more precise but are collected only at very specific points in time and at great expense. Therefore, in combination with clinical health data, they offer huge potential for healthcare, from prevention to intervention to follow-up.
However, in a digital market of health tracking devices dominated by international companies, the rights to the data and the analysis of the data are mostly outside Europe – there is a threat of a massive sell-out of German or European health data, as has already taken place in the social media sector.
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