This article intrigued me since I wear a Fitbit daily. Insurance companies, health and life, consider many factors when determining the type of insurance, a person needs. For instance, whether someone is a smoker, if they exercise, how much they drink, and what kind of diet they have. However, this information is only updated once a year at the least, when a patient is seen for their yearly checkup. What if that information could be uploaded to your doctor instantaneously throughout the day? Fitbit like devices are constantly monitoring steps an individual takes along with heart rate, calories burned, and steps taken. “There’s money” (2016) stated “These sensors, often worn as bracelets or clips, count the number of steps we take each day;
How would you like to keep track of your personal health information record in your computer at home? The electronic data exchange was one of the goals of the government to improve the delivery and competence of the U.S. healthcare system. To achieve this plan, the U.S. Congress passed a regulation that will direct its implementation. The Department of Health and Human Services is the branch of the government that was assigned to oversee the HIPAA rules. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 is a national public law in the United States that was created to improve health insurability, prevent insurance abuse and to protect the privacy and security of a person’s health information.
Lululemon Athletic Inc. (Lululemon) is a retail company that specializes in athletic yoga-inspired apparel for active men and woman. This company is headquartered in Canada and was founded in 1998 by Dennis Wilson. Wilson’s passion was technical athletics which resulted in him opening a studio to design yoga clothing in 2000 in Vancouver. To help pay his rent, Wilson held yoga classes at night when the design studio wasn’t being utilized. By 2011, Lululemon’s yoga apparel was being sold in over 130 stores located throughout Canada, United States and Australia. With much success expanding into a global market, Lululemon’s vision was to evaluate the world from mediocrity to greatness. To achieve this vision, a strategy was developed with
Fitbit was founded in 2007 by James Park and Eric Friedman with the purpose of using wireless technology to improve a person’s fitness and health according to the About Us page in Fitbit.com. Fitbit would fall within the digital technology industry that focuses on improving health and wellness of individuals. I would also classify Fitbit as an Internet of Things (IoT) device because it is Internet-enabled and shares and captures data without human involvement. Fitbit’s competitive advantages include being the first to market with a wearable technology that is widely accepted by general consumers. Fitbit was able to increase their market share significantly due to their first-mover advantage. Another competitive advantage for Fitbit includes
Advances in technology have influences our society at home, work and in our health care. It all started with online banking, atm cards, and availability of children’s grades online, and buying tickets for social outings. There was nothing electronic about going the doctor’s office. Health care cost has been rising and medical errors resulting in loss of life cried for change. As technologies advanced, the process to reduce medical errors and protect important health care information was evolving. In January 2004, President Bush announced in the State of the Union address the plan to launch an electronic health record (EHR) within the next ten years (American Healthtech, 2012).
This technology fits well with as industry looking for new care models to help alleviate the financial and physical burden created by chronic diseases. Mobile health technology is allowing for a shift of care from the acute-care, hospital setting to rehabilitation centers, patient residences, and skilled nursing facilities. This becomes crucial as CMS expanded its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program to include five conditions: chronic lung problems, heart failure, pneumonia, heart attack, and elective hip and knee replacements (Rau, 2014a). Hospitals can be penalized up to three percent of Medicare payments due to hospital readmissions that occur within thirty days of discharge. According to Rau (2014b), 18 percent of Medicare patients in 2013 were readmitted within a 30 day period costing Medicare roughly $26 billion, $17 billion of which comes from avoidable readmissions. The financial strain associated with chronic illness has catalyzed a movement toward using technology in a meaningful manner to improve health quality. Meaningful use is forcing entities to use certified electronic health records (EHR) in order to improve care coordination and quality. mHealth serves an extension of the electronic record enabling remote data capture that can be monitored in order to improve health outcomes and prevent
Although, Fitbit is an amazing company and creation you still need accessibility to an Iphone to use it, which I believe is the most important aspect of wearable technology today. Along with the Bluetooth headphones, Apple Watches, there are 1 million different uses for the Iphone from thousands and thousands of apps, to do all different sorts of tasks. Apple makes the other companies wince because of their ability to put everything in a big picture, then dissect these big pictures to know exactly what to use and how to go about it. For instance, although they were mainly a computer company. Their knowledge of the future of wearable technology was vast. They studied the 1969 walkman with cassette tapes, then discmans in 1984, following after was MP3 players in the early 1990’s, then came Ipods to destroy the competition out of MP3s. The biggest aspect of why this idea worked so well was the connectivity and accessibility to everything on one platform, Apple’s platforms were the not so secret weapon to control all of the wearable technology. Although, many companies are trying to knock Apple off of the totem pole, it’s safe to say they aren’t giving up power any time
Sharing the personal health records with patients has the potential to improve the safety of medication prescribing and trending of physiologic data (e.g. blood pressure, clotting times, blood glucose, and daily weights). Patient portals can serve as personal health records in which health information is preserved over time (Gephart & Effken, 2013). Humana provides great features of patient portal for their members. The patient portal can be viewed on a computer, a smart phone, and a tablet. The members can utilize the portal to order and search medication, find physicians, view existing claims and benefits, and submit requested documents. Using the patient portal makes the members to monitor and manage their health easier than
In this paper I will talk about how important it is to take care of your body and what to do tom make that happen. Within the last week, I was able to track my exercise, rest and health support. I will talk about my accomplishments and what I need to work on better.
The everyday health and fitness individual has the availability to track running, walking, sleeping, daily movement, and lets you set goals and challenge previous records. This group of individuals accounts for 128 million possible sales and are going to be in the best shape of their lives to take advantage of the fitness capabilities the Apple Watch has to offer. These active tech savvy students or business individuals can dress the watch up or down, and still keep track of fitness goals. The available apps for the Watch will help individuals keep notes, update events in personal calendars, check stocks, pay with Apple Pay, send and receive emails, and improve efficiency of tasks throughout the day while working out (Apple: The Watch Reimagined,
We are a health conscious society. We track our steps, the distance we cover, the calories we burn and our sleep quality. Our activity tracking device, such as a fitbit, provides us with an opportunity to stay focused on our goals and encourages us to be more active. Fitbit has become a mainstream activity tracker used by more than 33 million people in the US alone. Fitbit does not offer a business appropriate style. All of the options appears to be athletic in appearance and not designed to go with a business suit.
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With this newer technology Physicians, nurses, and other approved medical staff have the option to monitor their patient’s heart functionality, and fix pacemaker electrical signals to fit patients need from a mobile device, without ever bringing the patient into the Physicians’ office. Cardiac remote patient monitoring uses smart phones, and specific designed (secured) e-mails to deliver information sent from the device implanted within the patient’s heart. This allows medical staff to receive pertinent up-to date- information on the condition of the patient’s pacemaker, and heart. This can help create profound patient care, early critical heart failure, or heart defibrillation detection; while adding to medical staff’s proficiency, and cutting costly emergency room visits with prevention detection ("Remote Monitoring Technology Improves Pacemaker Performance", 2012).
Wayne Dyer once said “doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life”. Ever since I was a little girl, fashion has always been a very important part of my life. However, while most young girls were busy designing Barbie’s next outfit, I was enthusiastically trying to figure out the best way to market and sell Barbie to my friends. This habit did not end during my childhood years; rather it followed me through high school. I firmly believe that being passionate about your career can add much happiness and depth to your life. By attending FIT I can bring and take away positive ideas and qualities.
There are various legal standards that must be followed by Fitbit in the labeling of products. Fitbit makes sure that it notifies its consumers that Fitbits should not replace medical devices and that the information provided by its products does not hold any medical standing as well as to use common sense while using the Fitbit products (Terms of Service, 2015). This labeling is important because without notifying its users of these terms, Fitbit could be held liable for any health risks that users experience by relying on Fitbit products.