---
title: "The Quantified Doctor"
date: 2014-07-22
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "Books"
    url: "/category/books.md"
tags:
  - name: "Trackers"
    url: "/tag/trackers.md"
---

# The Quantified Doctor

![Quantified Care](https://ricmac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen-shot-2014-07-22-at-3-53-24-pm.png?w=610)

My [first book](http://ricm.ac/book-1-trackers/), due out January 2015, is about the Quantified Self movement. It’s called **Trackers: How Technology Is Helping Us Monitor & Improve Our Health**. One of the chapters is about a doctor who encourages her patients to use self-tracking tools, such as [Fitbit](http://www.fitbit.com) or [MyFitnessPal](http://MyFitnessPal.com).

Well now there’s a self-tracking company that caters specifically to doctors, called [Quantified Care](http://www.quantifiedcare.com/). I think this is a fantastic development, because these tools can benefit doctors just as much as they do their patients. Here are [a couple of infographics](http://www.quantifiedcare.com/blog/2014/7/14/what-is-quantified-care-these-infographics-will-explain) from Quantified Care that showcase this:

[![QC Infographic 1](https://ricmac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/infographic-2-final.png)](https://ricmac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/infographic-2-final.png)

[![QC Infographic 2](https://ricmac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/infogrpahic-1-final.png?w=610)](https://ricmac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/infogrpahic-1-final.png)