A few years back, when I first became fascinated by self-tracking, I committed to use and understand all of the trackers on the market at the time. It would be hard to make that kind of commitment today as the field has widened dramatically. But in 2009, it was much more confined. I had a …
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Somewhere around December or January, my weight, seemingly suddenly, jumped a couple of pounds. This triggered an alarm as I felt like I was already on the high end of what I considered an acceptable weight for me. At the same time, I recently got to know Samir Damani and his company, MD Revolution. Samir …
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost I received two emails from organizational leadership in the past week that represent milestones to me. One was about our efforts to better manage populations in the context of risk-bearing (pay-for-value) …
We just posted our curation of mood tracking apps on wellocracy.com. This prompted me to review just how far self-tracking has come in the last several years. Just four to five years ago we were beginning to understand the power of self-tracking for health. Prior to that, individuals interested in gathering measurable information about their …
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In a world where most folks change jobs every couple of years, people are often amazed to hear that I started work in connected health 19 years ago. Implicit in their amazement is a question, “Why did you stick with it so long?” The quickest response is that the work we started back then is …
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