The touchscreen itself is not the issue. You can't swipe properly because the rubber from the glove gets stuck to the glass of the screen. It's extremely annoying and most UX designers don't think about this.

Indeed, a big trend in lab equipment right now is moving to capacitive touch screens, so this issue is being addressed by the equipment makers.

It's specifically addressed by the use of Projected Capacitance touch screens(pCAP), which project the electric field far enough to where perturbations in the field can be detected through thin gloves. They still don't work through cold weather gear, but at that point your dexterity is severely compromised.

I just spent four years in a blood lab testing devices with touch screens. But they were screen button pushes, not swipes. Still, no problem.

I would be annoyed if any of them "gripped" the screen when I was swiping, causing jumpy motions.