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Digital technologies permeate all areas of our daily life. Activity and sleep trackers are used for monitoring and applications on smartphones for communication in the healthy population and in cancer research. In particular, the corona-pandemic have spur growth in the use and implementation of digital technologies. This session aims to give an overview on selected publications, outlook, and discussion of aspects of the use or wearables in cancer care.

Wearables are investigated during outpatient or inpatient treatment. Wearables and smartphone applications and are investigated to prevent emergency re-hospitalizations or to strengthen outpatient or home care. The combination of subjective actively patient reported outcomes measures and objective passively sensed digital biomarkers is considered as a promising approach. Information flow and data storage are discussed. Bots and Artificial Intelligence could help to better treat patients and  prevent emergencies. These strengths and opportunities contrast with threats such as privacy/ surveillance issues and rationing and de-humanization. A guideline by the WHO on how to implement digital interventions will be discussed. Approaches in favor of patient care are warranted in this fast moving field or research.