Beyond Health Tracking: A Personal Health and Lifestyle Platform

Author

Daniel, Florian ; Casati, Fabio ; Silveira, Patrícia ; Verga, Monica ; Nalin, Marco

Volume

15

Issue

4

fYear

2011

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

22

Abstract

A personal health and lifestyle platform helps individuals maintain a personal health and lifestyle record and obtain personalized, lifestyle-related advice to improve their health by changing their daily habits. The platform leverages the data stored in a typical personal health record, augmenting it with environmental and sensor data and enabling the monitoring and analysis of an individual´s habits. Sharing habits and advice with doctors and friends empowers individuals to become wellness coproducers and leads to a personal health and lifestyle record that is much more useful to the individual maintaining it.

Keywords

data handling; health care; medical information systems; records management; environmental data; health tracking; personal health record; personal lifestyle record; sensor data; Biomedical monitoring; Computational modeling; Data models; Human factors; Medical services; Monitoring; Patient monitoring; Tracking; Unified modeling language; Personal Health Record; Personal Health and Lifestyle Record; Social networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2011.53

Filename

5753876