23andMe - Genetic Testing for Health, Disease & Ancestry; DNA Test. Welcome to FwdHealth - Log In, Live Well, Earn More. Self Knowledge Through NumbersQuantified Self. Ginger.io. Sending your Smart Phone to Med School. This App Uses Cell Phone Data To Track How You're Feeling. Cell phone usage patterns say a lot about how you’re feeling.
Just ask Anmol Madan, a former MIT Media Lab student who collected 320,000 hours of data from cell phones for his senior thesis and discovered that certain patterns predict the beginning of issues like anxiety and the flu. If you’re depressed, diabetic, or have any sort of chronic illness, cell phone habits can be especially useful; a lack of activity signals to caregivers and doctors that something is up.
Ginger.io, a startup founded by Madan and MIT alum Karan Singh that we first covered after it won the Sanofi-aventis Data Design Diabetes challenge last year, is leveraging smartphone data to help people with a variety of ailments--including diabetes and heart disease--better manage their moods. And this week, it picked up $6.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Doctors also have the option of sending out simple surveys--i.e. how did you sleep last night on a scale of 1 to 10?
Misfit Wearables. Home « Rock Health Rock Health. The Top 13 Health Stories Of 2012. 2012 may be known as the year that self-tracking went from niche to mainstream.
No longer are self-tracking devices the domain of quantified self-ers who proudly track every single thing that they do; they’re quickly becoming popular among all kinds of people who want to make sure they’re active enough. The field of digital health has also grown this year, as evidenced by the popularity of mobile and web health accelerator Rock Health, which now churns out startups in both San Francisco and Boston. On the not-so-distant horizon is the Star Trek-worthy medical tricorder: a device that can scan all your vital signs in seconds.