DIGITAL HEALTH’S IMPACT ON TELEHEALTH...
- Google Fit: First announced at the
Google I/O conference in June of 2014, the
program is a single set of API's that interpret
and store data from multiple fitness apps and
device manufacturers (Nike, HTC, LG,
Withings, Motorola, Noom, Runtastic,
RunKeeper and Polar...so far). Users can use
the application on their mobile phone or
tablet, and personally select how, and with
whom their fitness data is shared. They can
delete this information at will.
allows users to connect, store, share and
download information from any location, not
restricting them to an office or practice
network. Not only does this maximize a
physician's capabilities in coordinating,
disseminating and sharing information with
patients and specialists quickly, it allows them
true efficiency in an era when performance
evaluations and reimbursements demand it.
This is nothing to say of the inherent "kink" it
helps smooth out, gasoline and travel time it
saves, and waiting rooms it can "de-crowd."
Digital health data itself is becoming
consistently more valuable to healthcare
technology manufacturers Per Jesse S ]B