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

"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 te...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacManus, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, 2015.
Temas:
Medical informatics.
Medicine > Information technology.
Medical Informatics
Médecine > Informatique.
Médecine > Technologie de l'information.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Medical informatics
Medicine > Information technology
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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