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Why Capture The Data Our Bodies Generate?

Your body generated millions of data points every day and this video illustrates why and what can be done with these data.

Today, heart bear data can be interpreted as normal or abnormal. Other aspects of our health are a lot less clear cut. Sleep patterns for example are difficult to evaluate beyond a very basic understanding. Once enough data is collected though, a not only better, but personalized, benchmarks will be available to give us clues and alerts to allow us to adjust our behaviors to lead healthier lives. This, in much more efficient ways than the hit or miss approach of modern medicine.

Take a look below and let me know what this inspires you.

The best rebuttal of privacy concerns as they relate to insurance companies using this data to adjust rates or insurability is from Google co-founder Larry Page and in the tweet after the video.

Hashtag Your Way to Relevance on LinkedIn

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Linkedin launches hashtags and as usual has jumps the gun on Facebook, confident in its position in the digital landscape. A no non-sense approach to making its social networks practical and in touch with the ever growing needs and demands of always … [Continue reading]

Why Digital Health is Nowhere Near a New Idea

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Today I ran in this interview by Robert Scoble of Tejho Kote. He's the CEO and co-founder of a startup that has seemingly nothing to do with healthcare. The company is called Automatic and it is focused on bettering our experience as car owners. … [Continue reading]

Health Care + Data Care = Total Care

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Digital health, mhealth, health IT are all the buzz these days and regardless of the angle you look at it, the technology revolution and social media are two compounding phenomenons that could contribute to greatly improving healthcare delivery, … [Continue reading]

A 15-Point Cheat Sheet for Twitter Newbies… Yes They Still Exist

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A good friend of mine recently asked me for guidance on starting on Twitter. May sound strange but yes, there are still people who aren't on Twitter. It is definitely a matter of fact we tend to forget. If and once she gets on Twitter, I will … [Continue reading]

Trip Inside a Gen Y Mind

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Generation Y will represent 75% of the work U.S. workforce by 2025. This age group  is fascinating to observe in how they relate to the world surrounding them. Particularly when we overlaying onto it what's happening in their mind. Sometime dark … [Continue reading]

The Ying and the Yang of Big Data

When it comes to the coming data explosion, the wholly grail resides not in collecting data, not in storing it but in actually using and harnessing it to extract its value. There are two variables that will command data harnessing: algorithms … [Continue reading]

The Internet of Things Picks Up Where Woodstock Left Off

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The "internet of things", the sweeping tech revolution we are living, is as scary to many as it is exciting to some. This revolution may even have in store, dreams come true. For baby boomers they are dreams from past times, for the Gen X and … [Continue reading]

The Whistle of a Faraway Train

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A great quote shared this evening by the excellent Gerry Wendel aka @modlandUSA. Can you relate? … [Continue reading]

New World, New Keys to Perks

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Forget loyalty cards and special coupons, only a virtual prerequisite can get you parked within a few yards of grabbing your chow at this popular burrito joint. Even closer than a parking spot for handicapped persons. Have you experienced one of … [Continue reading]