Enabling Programmable Self with HealthVault: An Accessible Personal Health Record

by Vaibhav Bhandari

Overview

Personal health and fitness has joined the digital revolution. Using Microsoft HealthVault, people interested in monitoring their health have an unprecedented opportunity to research their own data. This concise book explains how HealthVault users can collect and analyze their data, and how application developers can help them with mobile or web-based applications.

You’ll learn how to use HealthVault’s open API, flexibility, and connections with multiple health-care providers to develop health data applications, enable automatic updates from well-known fitness devices, and use programming libraries to create reports and investigate trends.

• Get a walkthrough of HealthVault functionality available to end users
• Use HealthVault to capture data from devices that measure a user’s health
• Examine HealthVault’s API for interacting with applications and devices, using .NET code samples
• Develop a Quantified Self application for consumers that can track more than 80 data types
• Learn how to build mobile apps for HealthVault by exploring an end-to-end example for Windows Phone 7
• Use best practices for releasing, maintaining, and marketing HealthVault applications to end users

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449316563
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/26/2012
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Vaibhav Bhandari is a seasoned software professional with over seven years of experience in technical, business and people management positions. He has lead Software Development through multiple product cycles in varied businesses at Microsoft. His experience spans Windows PowerShell, Windows Mobile Operating System, and Microsoft HealthVault. He has spoken and presented at several prestigious conference including OSCON (2011 & 2010) and Health 2.0 Hacking 4 Health. In his current role as part of Microsoft HealthVault he works with developers & partners to help design and implement Health Solutions on HealthVault. He is active in Healthcare IT community and shares inside view on health technology with a popular blog. When not involved with Healthcare & IT, he can be seen mountaineering in the North Cascades or cycling to far away places.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; Outline of the Work; Organization of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Getting Started with HealthVault; 1.1 What Is HealthVault?; 1.2 Getting Started with HealthVault; 1.3 Overview of HealthVault Features; 1.4 Working with Health Data; 1.5 Using Partner Applications; Chapter 2: Quantifying Yourself; 2.1 How Fitbit Tracks Sleep; 2.2 Exploring the HealthVault Data; 2.3 Analyzing the HealthVault Data; Chapter 3: Interfacing with HealthVault; 3.1 Accounts and Records; 3.2 HealthVault Application Programming Interface; 3.3 HealthVault SDK and Open Source Libraries; 3.4 Interfacing with HealthVault; Chapter 4: Using the HealthVault Data Ecosystem for Self-Tracking; 4.1 A Self-Experimentation Application; 4.2 Understanding HealthVault Data Types; 4.3 Extending HealthVault Data Types; 4.4 Creating Custom Types; 4.5 Trusting Data in HealthVault Data Types; 4.6 Relating HealthVault Data Types; 4.7 Exploring HealthVault Data Types; 4.8 Contributing to the Self-Experimentation Application; Chapter 5: Enabling mHealth for Quantified Self; 5.1 The Mood Tracker Mobile Application; 5.2 What About Android and iOS?; 5.3 Mobile Web Applications; 5.4 Contributing to the Mood Tracker Application; Chapter 6: The Last Mile: Releasing Applications to Users; 6.1 Testing Your Application; 6.2 Releasing Your Application to End Users; 6.3 Monitoring and Maintaining Your Application; 6.4 Adding New Features to Your Application; 6.5 Taking Your Application International!; 6.6 Further Resources;