Kate Andries reports:
Your phone knows everything about you — how much you walk, talk and what level of Candy Crush you’re stuck on — but soon it could be spilling secrets to your doctor.
More and more physicians are prescribing apps that help track their patients’ illnesses through information collected by their smartphones.
“[The trend] just seems to be exploding,” said Seth S. Martin, a Pollin cardiovascular prevention fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. “With the widespread use now of smartphones, it’s a really exciting opportunity to help people live healthier lives.”
Read more on WTOP. The news story discusses accuracy and validity of apps, but I see no discussion of data security and whether such data might be intercepted or shared elsewhere – and with what consequences.
Thanks to Joe Cadillic for sending in this link.