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Sure You Can Track Your Health Data, But Can Your Doctor Use It? : Shots - Health News : NPR
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    Abramson says all the information these devices collect can be overwhelming. One of his patients arrived with pages and pages of Excel spread sheets full of data — everything from heart rate to symptoms to medications. Abramson says he didn't know what to do with it all.

    "Going through it and trying to analyze and extract meaning from it was not really feasible," he says.

    To Anderson, the spreadsheets just didn't say all that much. "I get information from watching people's body language, tics and tone of voice," he says. "Subtleties you just can't get from a Fitbit or some kind of health app."