Are you looking forward to “The SmartPhone Physical” a “first of it’s kind demo” of a “well-patient checkup using only smartphone-based devices“ as much as I am? mHealth points to what sounds like an interesting session at TEDMed and provides an overview of many of the devices that are now available. I'm interested in devices that are reliable, accurate, easy-to-operate, and capable of storing data and providing reports, all in the name of better health and being a better and better informed patient. The SmartPhone Physical appears to have an established website.
Remember when all you took to the ballpark was your glove? When I went to see the Pirates last year, I shopped for an app, but I wound up keeping score the old way—with a scorecard and a pencil.MLB and Qualcomm team up to improve wireless connectivity in stadiums vrge.co/10Bq0yJ
— The Verge (@verge) April 4, 2013
Remember reading about Gary Wolf's presentation at TED about tracking and using personal metrics? Stephen Wolfram has a pretty practical answer about how you can use the information in today's New York Times: he looked at 23 year's worth of email and phone usage to find "patterns in his personal activity that might be linked to bursts of creativity." Also noted: Larry Smarr who "wears one wireless sensor to monitor the calories he burns and another to see how well he sleeps. He is keeping track of the bacteria in his body, about 100 different variables in his blood and many other fine points in his biochemistry.
After examining the data, he makes changes to improve his health. (So far, he’s lost weight and gained hours of deep sleep, he says.)"
New Cyberpills Send Text Messages If You Forget To Take Them
Did you forget to take your medicine? If you’re using these new microchip-implanted pills, your phone will remind you--and your doctor. Helpful attention or Big Doctor breathing down your neck?
I need this! I wanna argue with the article's "when you get old." For me—I think—I just get busy or bored. I heard about this before on Science Friday.