More Americans than ever before are tracking their health using wearable devices like fitness bands and smartwatches – a movement dubbed the “quantified self.” This generates a lot of personal health data, but will all this data help improve the … Read More
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mHealth for horse vets and precision farming (or your overweight dog)
While we’ve been busily blogging about mHealth, it turns out the whole industry is going to the dogs – and horses. From simple pet activity monitors to a mobile ECG for horse vets, veterinary mHealth is evolving. The fact that … Read More
When the pedometer is wrong…
As we wrote last time, proposed rules for the final stage of meaningful use would require providers to incorporate data from “non-clinical” settings from at least some of their patients. Among other things, this could mean monitoring a patient’s activity … Read More
