Editorial: Personal Health Systems

Frontiers in Medicine

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Dipak Kalra¹  Michael Strübin² 

[1] The European Institute for Innovation Through Health Data;MedTechEurope

关键词: personal health records;    personal health systems;    personal health monitoring;    telehealth;    mobile health;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmed.2020.591070

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

People increasingly track and collect data on their health, fitness, wellness, and lifestyle, using wearable or portable connected sensors and devices. Almost universally, those devices come connected with an app that users install on a mobile phone or tablet, and a portal where the data is stored. They are marketed as consumer products and are bought by would-be athletes, the “worried well,” and people in between who want to change and improve their lifestyles and become more active. Increasingly, medical devices also come connected. For example, people with diabetes tracking their blood sugar levels can now routinely send their data to an app and a portal (often hosted by the device vendor), rather than writing it down. These might be shared with health professionals as part of a shared care or continuous monitoring programme. Personal health systems, whether medical or consumer devices, may be relatively passive tools for collecting data, or may be smart: offering feedback, depicting trends or giving advice, generating alerts to the user or remotely signaling a concern to a monitoring service or care professional.

【 授权许可】

CC BY