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010 _a 2015016552
020 _a9781442253551 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z9781442253568 (electronic)
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100 1 _aMacManus, Richard.
245 1 0 _aHealth trackers :
_bhow technology is helping us monitor and improve our health /
_cRichard MacManus.
263 _a1508
264 1 _aLanham :
_bRowman & Littlefield,
_c2015.
300 _apages cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- Buster Benson's self-tracking odyssey -- The pedometer on steroids : tracking activity with Fitbit -- Diet wars : tracking food with MyFitnessPal -- The tao of weight tracking -- How useful is genetics? : me and my 23andMe results -- Inception : trackiing the brain -- Bacteria nation : tracking the microbiome with uBiome -- The health dashboard : TicTrac -- The modern doctor : Dr. Robin Berzin -- Tracking + medicine : MD revolution -- Epilogue.
520 _a"Thanks to new technologies, such as smartphone apps and personal genomics, self-tracking is revolutionizing the health and wellness industries. Through interviews with tech developers, early adopters, and medical practitioners, Richard MacManus explores what is being tracked, what tools and techniques are being used, the best practices of early adopters, and how self-tracking is changing healthcare"--Amazon.com.
650 0 _aMedical informatics.
650 0 _aMedicine
_xInformation technology.
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