Quantified Doctor Paul Abramson, M.D. was interviewed by Carolyn Elliot of moodtraining.com:
We at Moodtraining really admire the work you’re doing on the Quantified Doctor to create more collaboration with patients via self-quantification and tracking. How did you first get interested in self-quantification? What drew you to it?
Dr. Abramson:
I’ve been self-tracking for a long time, [...]
Quantified Doctor Paul Abramson, M.D. was interviewed last night on KPIX Channel 5 News about self-tracking to improve his own health and that of his patients, along with several other members of the San Francisco Quantified Self community.
Exerpt:
A community of people is measuring and collecting every detail of their lives using new technology, [...]
Patients self-tracking symptoms, environmental stimuli and behaviors, to get information that allows them to take control of their own health. It seems like a no-brainer. Even more so if this is done in the context of a well-designed and monitored personal experiment with or without the support of a Quant Coach [...]
The latest issue of Delta Sky Magazine features an article interviewing Paul Abramson MD, the Quantified Doctor, about self-tracking technologies:
Excerpt from April 2012 Delta Sky Magazine article by Mya Frazier, starting on p. 68:
“It’s only eight in the morning on a temperate, cloudy Friday in San Francisco, yet Dr. Paul [...]
Learning how to use breathing to improve health is one of the simplest and most important things I recommend to patients. It’s also very cost-effective.
I met a British surgeon Nagabhushanam “Bobby” Peddi last night at the #wisdom2conf (https://plus NULL.google NULL.com/s/%23wisdom2conf) holiday event, CEO of Saagara (http://saagara NULL.com). He’s created an app that leads you through breathing [...]
An article in Technology Review discussed data from a Georgia Tech research group suggesting that smartphone accelerometers are now good enough to detect the keys pressed as you enter your password, based on which side of the phone they’re on and the delay between keystrokes. The article also notes that the GPS, microphone, and other sensors [...]
I presented some methods and results from my own self-tracking experiments, performed over the past 6 weeks, at the Quantified Self Silicon Valley (http://www NULL.meetup NULL.com/quantified-self-silicon-valley/events/32673902/) Show & Tell at IDEO in Palo Alto.
What did I do?
1. Implemented a version of the “Paleo Diet” to change my body [...]
We continue to experiment with self-tracking as a way to enhance individual insight, awareness, and potentially control over one’s own health and well-being.
I show here a visualization from the BodyTrack (http://bodytrack NULL.org) platform of my activity level (via BodyMedia (http://bodymedia NULL.com) armband), sleep (via Zeo (http://myzeo NULL.com)), symptoms (via MyMee (http://mymee [...]
Our self-tracking demonstration project is in full swing. We have been testing a variety of devices and aggregating data on the BodyTrack (http://bodytrack NULL.org) platform. Along with 9 volunteers, we have also been exploring how a Quant Coach and Quant Doctor can productively work with self-trackers to improve the experience.
My favorite [...]
Are William Gibson’s visions close to becoming a real-world QS fantasy? Or a privacy debacle?
An “epidermal electronic system” (EES) is a thin film with electronic circuits that mounts on your skin, designed to stretch, flex, and twist — and to take input from the movements, electrical currents, and other measurable signals from your body. Research coming out this week in [...]
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