We're More Honest With Our Phones Than With Our Doctors

We're More Honest With Our Phones Than With Our Doctors

How health-tracking apps reveal new truths about our bodies.

... in recent years, mobile technology has granted me and countless others the ability to collect an unprecedented amount of information about our habits and well-being. Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets. Which is why researchers are leaping at the chance to work with the oceans of data we are generating, hoping that within them might be the answers to questions medicine has overlooked or ignored.

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Posted 5 years ago by Monty Solomon in General Telecommunications Forum

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