Finally, Wearables for Women's Health with Dr. Chris Curry

Wearables like smartwatches and rings have been tracking our steps, sleep, and heart rate for years. But a new generation of devices, paired with AI, is beginning to change what personal health data can actually do. Millions of people now arrive at doctor's appointments with months of continuous health information in hand—but oftentimes their clinicians have no idea what to do with it. 

In this episode of The Preprint, Dr. Neel Shah sits down with Dr. Chris Curry, OB/GYN, clinician-scientist, and Clinical Director of Women's Health at Oura. Drawing on her experience caring for patients, conducting research, and building health products at Apple and Oura, Dr. Curry shares why now is the moment for wearables to finally connect back to the rest of patient care..

Together, they discuss why wearables are reaching a tipping point, how often doctors are put off by the idea of using wearable data as part of patient assessments, and why women's health is one of the greatest opportunities for continuous monitoring and earlier intervention. They also explore the potential for wearables’ impact on women's health research and medicine at large.

At the heart of the conversation is one of the biggest challenges facing medicine today: as patients generate more continuous health data than ever before, how do we make sure they get the right data, at the right time, in a format that makes sense to the doctors they’re already seeing? This is the question for the podcast today..