Health Data Quotes

Vivametrica isn't the only company vying for control of the fitness data space. There is considerable power in becoming the default standard-setter for health metrics. Any company that becomes the go-to data analysis group for brands like Fitbit and Jawbone stands to make a lot of money.

In digital healthcare, we have introduced connected devices, including thermometers and blood pressure monitors that are connected through a common app. For instance, our weighing scales can measure your arterial stiffness and warn you.

If Facebook owns social, if LinkedIn owns business, who owns your health?

There's a big difference between apps that help you manage your medical information and draw clues from your own bodies, and those that seek to actively doctor you.

Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

I see more people taking charge of their well-being through the use of data and digital sensors, wearable health bands, and smartphone apps that can track and quantify everything from their heart rate, blood pressure, and sleep quality to steps walked and calories consumed.

As more of our medical records are stored electronically, the threats to our privacy will increase.

It wasn't very long ago when you wouldn't even think about there being health information on the smartphone. There's financial information. There's your conversations; there's business secrets. There's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home.

People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.

After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.

The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.

On the information technology side, health care is still behind other industries. There needs to be a real push to create better electronic health records, more inter-operability amongst various types of electronic systems and cybersecurity is becoming a huge deal in in health care. Health care records are highly sought after by virtue of the fact that not only do you have somebody's person financial information, you also have their person medical information.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health.

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Health data standardization is not so unlike trying to achieve world peace.. Everyone wants it, but no one is sure how to get there.

How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.

Self-tracking using a wearable device can be fascinating.

Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.