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October 1, 2023 By e-Patient Dave 2 Comments

Our Sense home energy monitor saved our butts and our bucks.

Regular readers know I love data, especially my own health data. This post isn’t about health data, but it makes my favorite point: knowledge is power, and it’s empowering to know what’s going on. Am I right?

Last year we got a nifty thing for home energy management, and this summer it detected a small disaster in process that would have cost us hundreds of dollars. At the peak of AC season in July, this notification popped up on my phone one morning: my electricity consumption was FOUR TIMES normal:

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Filed Under: Device data, Innovation 2 Comments

May 30, 2023 By e-Patient Dave 8 Comments

The Evolution of Who Knows What: A Cluetrain Manifesto for empowered patients

A quarter century ago, in the early years of the Web, a seminal book was published by four marketing wizards: The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. Its central point was that the internet was going to completely change marketing, because it made information flow freely, to and between consumers. Importantly, it consisted of 95 theses, patterned explicitly after the 95 theses Martin Luther nailed to the cathedral door in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517.

Painting of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door of the cathedral was others look on
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Filed Under: Culture change, Device data, Evolution, Health data, patient engagement, superpatients 8 Comments

May 15, 2023 By e-Patient Dave 9 Comments

COVID damage: What happened to my blood vessels??

What the heck happened to my blood vessels in January? My cardio-respiratory fitness plunged in one week when I got COVID:

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Filed Under: COVID-19, Device data, Long COVID Tagged With: Cardio Fitness, VO2max 9 Comments

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