2013 the Year of pHIT: Personal Health Information Technology

As the evolving and expanding worlds of mHealth, personal electronic health records and self-quantifying converge, wellness blogger Michael Rucker predicts 2013 will be the year of pHIT. Michael Rucker predicts 2013 will be the year of pHIT (personal health information technology). The world of mHealth and biometric sensors has made major strides since Kashmir Hill described the practice of Quantified Self (also known as self-tracking) as the act of “extreme navel-gazing” in the 2011 Forbes’ article Adventures in Self-Surveillance, aka The Quantified Self, aka Extreme Navel-Gazing. Since Hill’s article the biometric and tracking industry has

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