Health Trackers - How Technology Is Helping Us Monitor and Improve Our Health

Informationen zum Autor Richard MacManus, is the founder of technology blog readWrite.com. Widely read globally, it focused on the US market and was syndicated by the New York Times from 2008-2011. In 2011, Richard sold readWrite to San Francisco-based saY media and in 2012 left his job there as editor-in-Chief to write this, his first book. As readWrite's founder, he is widely recognized as a leader in articulating what's next in technology and what it means for society at large. He became interested in health technology when diagnosed with type I diabetes and he has written many articles about consumer health products and trends. Klappentext A new industry is growing around the tracking of health and fitness through various gadgets, apps, and programs. These new ways of monitoring our every move, however, may not be well understood even by those who use them, and yet they may be revolutionizing the health and wellness industries. This book makes sense of the various tracking devices and illustrates how they work for us and our overall health. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1: Buster Benson's self-tracking odyssey 2: The pedometer on steroids: tracking activity with Fitbit 3: Diet wars: tracking food with MyFitnessPal 4: The tao of weight tracking 5: How useful is genetics? Me & my 23andMe results 6: Inception: tracking the brain 7: Bacteria nation: tracking the microbiome with uBiome 8: The health dashboard: TicTrac 9: The modern doctor: Dr. Robin Berzin 10: Tracking + medicine: MD Revolution Epilogue

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard Macmanus, MacManus Richard
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9781442253551
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5355-1
• Seiten: 224
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Ratgeber > Gesundheit > Ernährung; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Instruments & Supplies, Personal & public health, Medical equipment & techniques, Personal and public health / health education, Medical equipment and techniques