[atmosx]

> http://a16z.com/2015/01/22/digital-health/

LOL, I love these stories, especially when featuring games like these:

> [...] Tomorrow? To understand your personal diagnostic data, you might soon depend more upon an iPhone app developed in a garage than on your local MD.

<rant> This garage theme is annoying. The fact that Jobs and Woz had a garage ruined garages... Seriously. They literally changed use in the post-jobs era. If your father owned a garage and you didn't come up with (at least) Dropbox, you're a loser!!!! </rant>

On a more serious note now.. The author seems to prefer applications written in a garage to measure things like blood glucose levels instead of machine-based lancets. If he were diabetic, I wonder, would he use an iPhone application to measure his blood glucose levels, or the MD?

[freehunter]

Well if I were diabetic, I certainly wouldn't go to my doctor every time I needed to check my glucose. That would get really expensive. I would instead rely upon a home glucose checker, which could easily be integrated with an iPhone using Bluetooth or as an attachment ala Square. Even moreso, if it integrated with HealthKit, I could have my glucose levels over time and have them shared with my doctor using the integration with Epic's MyChart app.

So, not as silly as you might think.

[dragonwriter]

> If he were diabetic, I wonder, would he use an iPhone application to measure his blood glucose levels, or the MD

Actual diabetics I know do occasional in-office tests, but for routine testing use at-home personal testing kits, which one could easily imagine syncing to devices and online services the way personal fitness trackers do. With severe diabetes, you need monitoring more frequently than is practical with in-office-only testing.