Evidence library · 2026
Health Intelligence and Continuous Care Statistics 2026
Nine sourced figures on connected health data, clinical workflows, wearable use, AI and healthy lifespan.
Each figure names its population, geography and measurement year. These industry figures are not Kalibra outcomes.
Industry statistics
106.6 million US adults used a wearable device to track health or activity in 2024.
Source: Haridas et al., Journal of the American College of Surgeons, published 10 April 2026, analysis of the 2024 Health Information National Trends Survey. Study.
58% growth in the estimated number of US adults using a health or activity wearable occurred from 2019 to 2024.
Source: Haridas et al., published 10 April 2026. Study.
70% of US non-federal acute-care hospitals engaged at least sometimes in all four measured interoperability activities—send, receive, find and integrate—in 2023.
Source: US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Data Brief 71, May 2024. Data brief.
43% of those hospitals routinely engaged in all four interoperability activities in 2023.
Source: ONC, Data Brief 71, May 2024. Data brief.
42% of those hospitals reported that clinicians often used electronically received information from outside providers at the point of care in 2023, although 71% reported routine access to necessary outside clinical information.
Source: ONC, Data Brief 71, May 2024. This measures hospital-reported use of external information, not the percentage of all health data used. Data brief.
42% of those hospitals reported sending summary-of-care documents to most or all external hospitals in 2023, a specific care-continuity gap rather than a measure of all referrals.
Source: ONC, Data Brief 71, May 2024. Data brief.
49.2% of the office day was spent on EHR and desk work versus 27.0% on direct clinical face time in a time-and-motion study of 57 US physicians in four specialties.
Source: Sinsky et al., Annals of Internal Medicine, 6 September 2016. This older, small observational sample should not be described as the current average for all clinicians. Study abstract.
More than 80% of surveyed physicians reported using AI professionally in the AMA’s 2026 survey; the leading reported use was summarising medical research and standards of care.
Source: American Medical Association, 12 March 2026. This is self-reported professional use, not AI making clinical decisions. AMA survey report.
71.4 years of life expectancy versus 61.9 healthy years was the global estimate for 2021, a 9.5-year gap.
Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Estimates, life tables for 2000–2021. These are 2021 estimates, not 2026 measurements. WHO data and methods.
Reviewed 30 September 2026. This page is reviewed quarterly; every number retains its original study year and source.
