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Are Wearables Good For Your Health?
In a report to the United Kingdom’s House of Lord’s Select Committee on the Sustainability of the NHS, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) proposed that “new technologies should be investigated to encourage healthier living to reduce demand for NHS services and create efficiencies in the healthcare system.” In healthcare, technology, such as wearables,...Cother Hajat | Oct 31, 2016
Apple, biometrics, BMI, diet, FitBit, fitness, Health Tap, IFoA, medication adherence, NHS, physical activity, research, Vitality GP, wearables
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More steps, more life
It is well-known that being physically active is linked to living a longer and healthier life. A recent study from Australian researchers confirmed this, showing that taking more steps each day led to a lower risk of death. Over a period of five years the scientists studied objectively measured physical activity—with a device, and not...Adriana Selwyn and Jonathan Dugas | Mar 23, 2016
Active Rewards, Apple Watch, Australia, FitBit, Garmin, Guidelines for Personalized Health Technology, physical activity, Polar, productivity, steps per day, Vitality
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Today is Data Privacy Day!
On January 26, the health insurer Centene disclosed the misplacement of six hard drives containing personal information on 950,000 people. On January 27, Buzzfeed reported that fraudsters were trading data on Fitbit users for a mere 50 cents. On January 28 – today – the world celebrates Data Privacy Day! Led by the non-profit National...Gillian Christie | Jan 28, 2016
#TrustTech, Buzzfeed, Canada, Centene, Convention 108, data, data protection, FitBit, International Data Privacy Day, Natural Cyber Security Alliance, personalized health technology, privacy, United States
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A Healthy Roundup: The 2016 Consumer Electronics Show
It is undeniable that health is undergoing an unprecedented digital revolution. This transformation was prominently displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which took place from January 6-9, 2016 in Las Vegas, NV. According to the CES Daily, more than 800 companies exhibited a wearables product, and approximately 500 exhibitors considered themselves part of the...Gillian Christie | Jan 13, 2016
artificial intelligence, Blaze, CES, Consumer Electronics Show, data, digital health, Edith Ramirez, embeddables, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, FitBit, Ginni Rometty, IBM, IBM Watson, Krush, L'Oreal, La Vegas, Oculus, Pepper, privacy, SoftBank, Under Armour, virtual reality, WAVE framework, wearable technology, wearables
