Connected health is the future; in fact, it’s already here
Considering how long I have been writing about the future of healthcare, the need for adequate monitoring of the parameters related to it, and the advance of devices dedicated to that end — of which I am, moreover, a convinced user — I must say that I was delighted to receive an email from my health insurance company, Sanitas (The Spanish subsidiary of BUPA), in which they invite me, completely voluntarily of course, to complement (link in Spanish) the information they manage about my health by connecting up with the monitoring applications I usually use.
In my case, a person in reasonably good health but with a history of heart problems that will likely recur at some point, I use the Apple Health app to collect information from all my devices (iPhone, Apple Watch, FitTrack Pro, Oura and Kardia). What’s needed, is that in addition to examining these readings myself, is some sort of monitoring algorithm to keep abreast of those parameters, interpret them, and if necessary alert me of the need to visit my doctor.
Trust is the key here: my choice of Apple as the company in charge of collecting and storing my health parameters is no accident, but because of a credible privacy policy. In the case of my health insurance provider, I have had enough years and enough changes in my health status to be clear that what they are…
