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Health trackers : how technology is helping us monitor and improve our health

MacManus, Richard. (Author).

Summary: "Thanks to new technologies, such as smartphone apps and personal genomics, self-tracking is revolutionizing the health and wellness industries. Through interviews with tech developers, early adopters, and medical practitioners, Richard MacManus explores what is being tracked, what tools and techniques are being used, the best practices of early adopters, and how self-tracking is changing healthcare"--Amazon.com.

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  • ISBN: 9781442253551 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 144225355X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9781442253568 (electronic)
  • Physical Description: print
    224 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction -- Buster Benson's self-tracking odyssey -- The pedometer on steroids : tracking activity with Fitbit -- Diet wars : tracking food with MyFitnessPal -- The tao of weight tracking -- How useful is genetics? : me and my 23andMe results -- Inception : trackiing the brain -- Bacteria nation : tracking the microbiome with uBiome -- The health dashboard : TicTrac -- The modern doctor : Dr. Robin Berzin -- Tracking + medicine : MD revolution -- Epilogue.

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Subject: Medical informatics
Medicine Information technology
Monitoring, Ambulatory
Self Care
Medical Informatics Applications

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Health Trackers : How Technology Is Helping Us Monitor and Improve Our Health

Richard MacManus, is the founder of technology blog readWrite.com. Widely read globally, it focused on the US market and was syndicated by the New York Times from 2008-2011. In 2011, Richard sold readWrite to San Francisco-based saY media and in 2012 left his job there as editor-in-Chief to write this, his first book. As readWrite's founder, he is widely recognized as a leader in articulating what's next in technology and what it means for society at large. He became interested in health technology when diagnosed with type I diabetes and he has written many articles about consumer health products and trends.

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