More people than ever are wearing something that tracks their health — a smartwatch, a ring, a continuous glucose monitor. What's less clear is whether that data is actually making it into the room with a doctor, or whether it's just sitting in an app. A study published in JAMA Network Open earlier this year looked at exactly this question, tracking national trends in wearable use alongside people's willingness to share that data with their clinicians. The researchers found t

A new survey from PartnerMD's 2026 Primary Care Check-Up found that only 24% of patients report visits lasting 20 minutes or more, and 68% say appointments feel rushed at least sometimes. Only 16% feel their doctor knows them extremely well. And a separate study analyzing recorded doctor-patient conversations found something worth sitting with: across 157 visits, patients spoke an average of 773 words while doctors spoke about 1,911 — with patients out-talking their doctor in