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One Doctor’s View of Personal Science: You Won’t Learn Anything.
By Seth Roberts Bryan Castañeda, who lives in Southern California, told me this: The law firm I work at specializes in toxic torts. We represent people who have been occupationally exposed to chemicals...
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Anytime We Consider Anything Less than Everything, We Are Missing Something.
By J. Paul Neeley When we design today, we isolate problems and then create solutions for them, and we then celebrate those solutions. But in reality we have no idea exactly what we’ve done, because in...
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Four Healthcare Trends Hospital Executives Cannot Ignore
By KENT BOTTLES Hospital leaders are busy trying to cope with the changes brought on by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the realization that the federal budget deficit translates...
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Will the Quantified Self Movement Take Off in Health Care?
“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” Lord Kelvin “Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb Of course...
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PlaceMe: A Creepy Model For Health Information?
By Phil Bauman Data, information, interpretation and decision-making are among the vital components of prevention, diagnosis, management and treatment. The problem we have today is how to gather and...
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Dude, Gimme My Damn Data. Seriously.
By David Harlow The latest news story to examine the issue of patient access to implantable cardiac defibrillator data (a variation on the theme of “gimme my damn data”) is an in-depth, Page One Wall...
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The State of Self-Tracking
By ERNESTO RAMIREZ and GARY WOLF In January we started asking ourselves, “How many people self-track?” It was an interesting question that stemmed from our discussion with Susannah Fox about the...
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The Data Diet: How I Lost 60 Pounds Using A Google Docs Spreadsheet
By Paul Smalera The author in early 2010 and mid 2011 I’ve been thinking about how to write this story for a long time. Should it be a book? A blog? A self-help guide? Ever since I realized I’d lost 60...
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Wellness Programs Aren’t Working. Three Ideas That Could Help.
By MIKE MIESEN You’d be forgiven if, after reading last month’s Health Affairs, you came to the conclusion that all manner of wellness programs simply will not work; in it, a spate of articles...
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Do Our Cells Have Their Own IP Address Yet?
By Ali Ansary In the future, implanted chips will have the ability to stop food absorption when caloric intake reaches 2200. Cells in our forearm will be able to monitor our glucose levels and adjust...
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By Kim Krueger & Sophie Park In a world where big data plays an important role of monitoring individual health care and wellness, Health 2.0’s CEO and Co-Founder Indu Subaiya had an exclusive...
View ArticleConfessions of a Self-Tracker
By Michael Painter, MD Hello. I am Mike Painter, and I track. I don’t necessarily have a compelling reason to track health parameters such as exercise patterns, heart rate, weight, diet and the...
View ArticleThe Self-Health Era
By CECI CONNOLLY If you’re wearing a wristband that counts your steps, a patch that monitors your vital signs or a watch that tracks your heart rate, you are in the minority. And if you paid $300 or...
View ArticleMyFitnessPal Works If You Use It
By MIKE LEE You may have seen some news regarding a study MyFitnessPal recently did with UCLA. I wanted to take a minute to address this study, since we participated in it directly. We are excited that...
View ArticleThree Ways Doctors Can Use Patient Data to Get Better Results
By JOHN HAUGHOM, MD Physicians have always been in the information business. We have kept records of patient data regarding the vital signs, allergies, illnesses, injuries, medications, and treatments...
View ArticleComputers Replacing Doctors, Innovation and the Quantified Self: An Interview...
By ROBERT WACHTER, MD Atul Gawande is the preeminent physician-writer of this generation. His new book, Being Mortal, is a runaway bestseller, as have been his three prior books, Complications, Better,...
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A Business Proposal for Mark Cuban
By SAURABH JHA, MD Businessman and maverick, Mark Cuban recently opined “if you can afford to have your blood tested for everything available, do it quarterly so you have a baseline of your own...
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Doctors Should Own Up to Creating the Mark Cuban Problem
By ADAMS DUDLEY, MD Much has been made of Mark Cuban’s medical knowledge since he tweeted, “If you can afford to have your blood tested for everything available, do it quarterly so you have a baseline...
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Forget Patient-Facing Apps. Yes, You Read That Correctly.
By ALAN PITT, MD Several years ago both Microsoft and Google invested millions of dollars on a flawed assumption: If they built a useful and free healthcare application, people would flock to it. In...
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Do Our Cells Have Their Own IP Address Yet?
By Ali Ansary In the future, implanted chips will have the ability to stop food absorption when caloric intake reaches 2200. Cells in our forearm will be able to monitor our glucose levels and adjust...
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