Introduction
At recent technology conferences, one topic has caught my attention: every year, more health-focused devices, sensors, and applications appear. Smartwatches track heart rate, smart scales measure body data, glucose monitors record blood sugar levels, and apps help users track sleep or nutrition. Today, the amount of information we can collect about our own bodies is enormous.
This article was inspired by an everyday experience with my father, Herminio ❤️. Whenever he has a medical appointment, he opens the Apple Health app and shows the doctor the evolution of his heart rate, physical activity, sleep hours, and other recorded metrics.
While watching this, I kept asking myself the same question: are we really making the most of all this information?
Showing a chart during a medical appointment can be useful, but the data could provide much more value if it were automatically processed, summarized, and transformed into a structured health report.
