The Impact All Those Devices Are Having On Healthcare. A Bit Of A Survey Of Ideas!

This appeared last week.How devices are letting people take control of their own healthcareBy Celina Ribeiro27 Dec 2018 — 11:00 PMIt's 6am in the yoga room when my Apple Watch beeps three times. It's not helping the mediative mood but I have to look. I've been wearing the watch for two weeks and I'm tracking everything I can about my body. Right now my heart rate is 68 beats per minute. The readout tells me I've st ood for a minute each hour for 10 consecutive hours. Through the My Fitness Pal app, I've logged exactly what I've eaten today and learned a glass of Bonsoy is nearly as calorific as a banana. Where my doctor's advice and own self-interest failed to get me doing my 30 minutes of exercise a day, the watch has succeeded. I now have data about how much I weigh, what I eat, how well I sleep, how much I've walk and how hard my heart is working. If I am prepared to share some of this information with my insurance company I could get a discount on my life cover. But what I am doing... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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