Today it is more or less mandatory that if you are a hospital CIO and responding to your management's request to go "digital" you will look to develop yet another app that will get you 'closer' to your patients, or customers as you may now be calling them! But will it really? Get you closer to them, I mean? Well, it depends. Most hospitals and healthcare providers tend to build an app from their internal viewpoint, inward oriented perspective and limited by their own capacity

I have been a zealous wearer of the Fitbit since its early days in 2012 and have the data to prove that with just "watching" my steps, I have been shamed into increasing from daily average steps from 4k to nearly 8k. And I love that. I experimented with Jawbone and the Misfit, and while I love them, I can only wear one, and my choice was the FB. I have gone through most of their mid range offerings and currently sport the Alta. But - I can see a change coming and it is as ord