Folks seem to like digital health tools, and companies certainly like to produce them. But there's a serious missing piece of the digital health app puzzle: Little of the data collected is put to its fullest use.

That's what a study by HealthMine found when it quizzed both wearables users and the general public about different aspects of integrating wearable data collection into the health care system.

The big shocker came from the 42 percent of wearables users when they were asked what happened to the data their devices were gathering.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.