My latest column on The Battle of the Health Data Ecosystems went live today in The Huffington Post.
Read about the implications of the Nokia + Withings merger in the context of the launch of Apple’s CareKit, Under Armour’s Healthbox, and Google’s health data mine and analytics capabilities, all in the emerging health/medical era of The Internet of Things (IoT).
A Fitbit tracking device played an important role in a recent story of the IoT in health/care. A patient was admitted to an emergency room with an irregular heartbeat after a grand mal seizure at work. The ER team didn’t have the data they needed to make a sound diagnosis…until one of the team noticed the patient was wearing a Fitbit Charge HR. By analyzing the previous days’ and hours’ data generated by the wearable device, the doctors were able to diagnose atrial fibrillation and prescribe appropriate therapy that may have saved the patient’s life. That Fitbit data is part of a larger health data ecosystem that in this case was used for good, to patient’s benefit.
You can access all of my Huffington Post (HP) columns from 2013 onward here on my HP portal page.
One of the best aspects of my work is collaborating across the health/care ecosystem to address how health citizens can deal with health care costs and and care for families. I'm grateful to have collaborated with Fidelity on their research into this issue, 
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I’m celebrating America’s 250th birthday both patriotically and professionally, honored that the NLM included my 2010 paper, “How Smartphones Are Changing Healthcare for Consumers and Patients” as one of 250 items curated for the digital archive of 250 Years of American Medicine.