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BP rechecks without office visits?
Glucose readings sent daily to a doctor's EHR?
Multiple data points for adjusting patient care, instead of one or 2 points per year?
Is it really a question, whether mobile health technology will reduce costs, improve the quality of care, and magnify patient satisfaction?
Courtesy of Mashable, a CES snapshot of current and future directions in personal health, aka quantified self, aka self-monitoring, as seen by FitBit.
Lots of moving parts in this field -- FitBit, iHealth, and Withings all now make a digital scale that can upload weights and bodyfat % to the Internet and social media sites -- a very powerful motivating tool -- and FitBit, BodyMedia, and Nike now make personal devices to track activity and exertion with similar uploading capacity.
The deciding factor for the winner(s) in this space may be the utility of the smartphone or web interface, the reliability of the product (Jawbone stumbled here), or the basic slickness of the marketing campaign (Nike).
Any way this plays out, we as consumers should benefit.
At work, I'm a medical director, Family Medicine Dept Chair, primary care physician, and a healthcare IT consultant for an EHR.
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