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Personalizing Health Data

Aug 13, 2009

"Can the grassroots Internet do for health what it is doing for politics?" asks Esther Dyson in the Financial Times. She writes that the Internet has allowed people to become "vocal and engaged" in politics and that this has changed what they expect to know about their medical institutions. Electronic medical records are a step, she says, but people need access to their own data. She writes:

Not everyone will become a "self-quantifier", but the choices of those who do will shape overall consumer consciousness and, in turn, the products and services offered by restaurants and food companies, the popularity of gyms and exercise overall, and the role models we emulate.

HT: Genes to brains to mental health

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PNAS Papers on Mosquito MicroRNAs, Acute Kidney Injury, Trichothiodystrophy

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