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What To Wear To Reiki Jolting Cool Tips

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Health Care and the Democratic Debates – Part 1 – Medicare For All, Rx Prices, Guns and Mental Health

Twenty Democratic President candidates each have a handful of minutes to make their case for scoring the 2020 nomination, “debating” last night and tonight on major issues facing the United States. I watched every minute, iPad at the ready, taking detailed notes during the 120 minutes of political discourse conducted at breakneck speed.

Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, and Jose Diaz-Balart asked the ten candidates questions covering guns, butter (the economy), immigration, climate change, and of course, health care — what I’m focusing on in this post, the first of two-debate-days-in-a-row.

The first ten of twenty candidates in this debate were, from left to right:

Bill DeBlasio, NYC Mayor

Rep. Tim Ryan, Ohio

Julian Castro, Former Housing Secretary under President Obama

Sen. Corey Booker, New Jersey

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts

Beto O’Rourke, Former Texas Congressman

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii

Governor Jay Inslee, Washington

John Delaney, Former Maryland Congressman

Health care, and issues related to it, featured prominently throughout the two hours. The first part of the discussion focused on the economy and income distribution.

Income and the growing wealth-poverty gap is a relevant place to start a debate with a strong health care theme because health and social problems are worse in more unequal countries as the line/dot graph illustrates — the greater the income inequality, the higher the index of health and social problems. See the U.S. up and to the right on the high-high axes. [This, the impact of social determinants of health beyond health care, is the underlying theme of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen].

Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal. She spoke in a larger context about the national economy, asking for whom is the economy working? She believes the economy is, “doing great for giant drug companies, just not for people trying to get a prescription filled.”

Beto O’Rourke shared his view that, “we have an economy that works for people who can pay for access and outcomes.”

Julian Castro called out the pay gap between men and women, growing up with a Mom who raised his brother Joaquin (a Congressman serving Texas’s 20th District) and him, and was paid less simply because she was a woman, he recollected. He called for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and to pursue equal pay for equal work across the nation.

Tulsi Gabbard spoke about American people deserving “a president who puts your interest ahead of rich and powerful,” and would invest tax dollars serving “your needs (including) health care.”

Bill DeBlasio called out the “greatest gap between wealthy and poor” and addressing income inequality. As Mayor of New York City, DeBlasio said he is raising wages, benefits, putting dollars back into the hands of people, and funding Pre-K education for all New Yorkers.

Governor Inslee spoke from his Washington State experience, looking to “reinvigorate collective bargaining.” As the candidate running first and foremost on addressing climate change, he asserted, “Trump is wrong – wind turbines don’t cause cancer, they cause jobs.” Inslee is working to pivot Washington state toward the green economy.

Tim Ryan of Ohio spoke about the post-industrial economy there, noting that the state lost 4,000 jobs in a GM facility which, in his words, “rippled through the community, then got a bailout, and now moving car production to Mexico.” He observed that this is not new-news: the trend has been going on for 40 years in Ohio, where the “bottom 60% haven’t seen a raise since 1980.”

Moving from the macro economy, Lester Holt segued the debate into health care, recognizing that “many at home have coverage with employers.” He asked the ten debaters to raise their hands to answer the question: “Who would abolish and do a government-run plan?” Only two raised their hands: DeBlasio and Warren.

Every one of the ten debaters supports universal health care coverage, with the eight who didn’t raise hands arguing for different flavors of a mixed public/private system. Klobuchar argued for a public option which was baked into the original Affordable Care Act. She is concerned about “kicking half of America off of health insurance in 4 years,” pivoting to the “much bigger issue” of pharmaceuticals pricing. She recalled that President Trump “went on Fox and said peoples’ heads would spin when they saw dropping prices” for medicines. She went into the data citing that 2,500 drug prices have gone up since President Trump took office, and that there have been in her words, “$100bn in giveaways to pharmaceutical companies.” Later in the debate, Klobuchar raised the issue of health disparities and in particular, how African-American women get less effective maternal health care.” [This sad truth about U.S. health care outcomes was recently described by the CDC].

“That’s what we call at home all foam and no beer,” she quipped. Let’s take on pharma, allow negotiations of prices under Medicare. “Pharma thinks they own Washington, but they don’t own me,” she added.

Warren said she has signed on to “Bernie care,” saying, “I’m with Bernie on Medicare for all. I spent time in my life studying why families go broke…this happens to people who have insurance…the business model of an (health) insurance company is to bring in as many dollars in premiums and pay out as few dollars as possible,” Warren described. “I understand a lot of politicians say it’s not possible – what they are telling you is they won’t fight for health care as a basic human right and I will fight for it,” Warren promised. [Here’s a link to her published research into the relationship between health care costs and personal bankruptcy in America written when she was at Harvard].

O’Rourke ran for Senate praising a bill that would replace private insurance. His stance has moved to the center away from single payer, to a private/public mix. He believes in “getting to guaranteed universal health care, featuring primary care, the ability to see a mental health provider,” noting that in Texas, the single largest provider of mental health care is the county jail system.” He went on to say that women should be “in control of their own body,” getting applause. When Holt asked O’Rourke if he would replace private insurance, O’Rourke said that, no, “if you are uninsured you can enroll in Medicare, if you are in a union plan and it works you can keep it.”

DeBlasio chimed in saying that private insurance isn’t working well for anyone, which drives his believe in a single payer government run system.

Delaney recognized that 100 million Americans like their current insurance and said, “we should keep what works and fix what’s broken – give everyone free care as a basic human right,” but with an option to buy more or “up” from a basic plan. He critiqued that Medicare for All bills would pay hospitals at current Medicare rates which, Delaney warned, “would kill the hospitals” financially.

Gabbard’s take was that, “We are talking about this in wrong way,” saying that she would give every sick American the quality health care they need. Look at other countries, she recommended, noting that every one with universal health care has a role for private insurance.

For Booker, “it’s not just a health care issue — it’s an education issue,” he believes. “If you don’t have care, you can’t succeed at school.” This is also a retirement issue, he asserted, where people have lower life expectancy due to poorer health care. This is “not just a human right but an American right,” calling out that, “too many people are profiteering off of the pain of people” in the U.S., pointing to pharma and health insurance.

Warren added that, “insurance companies $23 bn of profits out of the health care system,” detailing the pay to executives, lobbyists, and, “a giant industry that wants the system to stay the way it is — not working for families, but working for them.” But families must come first, Warren believes.

Inslee said that insurance companies should not have an option to deny women choice. In Washington State, he passed legislation protecting the right of women for health insurance and a law for a public option, promoting health insurance access for everyone, he said.

“Three women up here have fought for women’s right to choose,” Klobuchar noted, prompting applause.

Castro discussed women’s right to abortion and emphasized the concept of “reproductive justice” versus “reproductive rights.” It’s “justice” because women of lower incomes don’t have health equity or access — nor do trans people, which also got applause from the audience. “Just because someone is poor doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to choose,” Castro believes, identifying eroding women’s health rights in Alabama, Georgia and Missouri.

Jose Diaz-Ballard moved to the topic of opioids, asking Booker if companies manufacturing opioids should be help criminally liable. Booker said, yes, they are liable and responsible. Booker noted he would not take contributions from a pharma company. “In Newark, we’ve tried to arrest our way out of addiction for too long…we need national urgency to deal with this problem and make pharma companies responsible to pay for this.”

Chuck Todd ushered in the second hour of the debate with the public health issue of guns, describing that this meet-up was being held less than 50 miles from the Parkland shooting. Todd described that gun activism is now a part of high school life in Broward County, Florida. “What do you do about all the guns out there?” Todd asked Warren.

She recalled that while running for President, she has already conducted over 100 town halls. The hardest questions have been from kids asking, “when you are president, how are you going to keep us safe?” She responded, “That is our responsibility as adults,” adding that seven young people die from gun violence each day in the U.S. “Gun violence is a national health emergency in the U.S.” Warren would double-down on research to find out what really works in stemming gun violence to find “where can we make a difference at the margin that will keep our kids safe.” She said we should treat gun violence like a virus killing our children and treat this like a serious research problem. It’s a public health emergency, as she called it, and as such we should, “bring data to bear whether politically popular or not.”

Booker added that he has a Federal government buy-back program in his plan, adding that he hears gunshots in his neighborhood on a regular basis. Seven people were shot in his neighborhood last week. “People are tired of living in a country learning reading, writing, arithmetic, and shooting in school,” Booker passionately argued. “We let the corporate gun lobby frame the debate. This is not policy — it’s personal” to him.

Ryan said we need trauma-based care in every school, featuring social and emotional learning. He cited the statistic that 90% of shooters who wreak gun violence in their own school feel traumatized and bullied. We need a mental health counselor in every school because, he has observed, “kids are traumatized.”

For more details on other aspects of the debate beyond health care and financial wellness, here’s a link to NBC’s live blogging from the event.

Here is Kaiser Health News’ coverage of the event through their health policy lens.

Health Populi’s Hot Points: You’ve just read Part 1 of my listening to the first Democrats’ debate for 2020 President. Tonight, I will listen to the second half of this discussion, leading to tomorrow’s follow-up for Part 2 and synthesis of the major themes and implications for U.S. health care.

In the meantime, I’ll sign off from Part 1 of the Dems Candidates Debate coverage with a riff from Paul Simon on candidates’ debates…from his song, Mrs. Robinson…skip to 3:15 seconds to get to this stanza…a wonderful live version of this song which seems well timed for this moment…

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon

Going to the candidates’ debate

Laugh about it, shout about it

When you’ve got to choose

Every way you look at this you lose

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FemTech is Hot, and Fitbit Knows It

Girls Rule the World, Beyoncé has told us. But not when it comes to digital health…at least until 2018, as Fitbit has announced a woman-focused smartwatch called the Versa which is expected to hit the market in April 2018.

The waterproof Versa will measure heart rate, do the usual fitness tracking metrics, and enable women to track their menstrual cycle. Fitbit has been quite clear that the device isn’t for conception or contraception.

The watch will be priced at $199 at retail, a much lower price-point than the Apple Watch at $329. So here Fitbit also has an argument for financial wellness, along with health and fitness.

I’ve witnessed the growing presence of femtech at CES since I started attending the mega-meeting over the past six years. “Femtech” is the abbreviation for “female technology,” which covers digital tools that track, manage or and/or enhance reproduction, maternity, fertility, nursing, and sexual health.

Let me share some market history through my own experience at CES, which provides some useful context for Fitbit’s announcement.

First, femtech was about pink: specifically, pink bands for wrist-worn activity trackers, like the ones shown here on a Fitbit “pink timeline.”

In the first years of activity tracking, when it came to female-focused devices, it was about fashion-meeting-sensors. Tori Burch designed jewelry that fit a Fitbit tracker (shown in the third picture). Swarovski crystals surrounded a Misfit Shine. In 2016, after Fossil acquired Misfit, the Kate Spade brand (part of the Fossil Group) created whimsical watch faces that housed sensors to track steps.

But honestly, all I’ve wanted these years since beginning of quantifying myself with the Fitbit “Classic” in 2009 was a way to organize the many facets of my health-life in one app. There are dozens of niche apps which target one or two women’s health issues, but getting the continuum of female wellness and healthy living in one dashboard has been a long time coming.

So I welcome Fitbit to the streamlining of femtech, a personal Holy Grail.

That streamlining is important as period-tracking data can mash up with other data in the very large Fitbit database. “Female health tracking will empower women with a greater understanding of their menstrual cycles in conjunction with their physical and mental health, as they start to recognize what are normal trends over time versus what could be an issue to share with their doctor,” Dr. Katharine White, MD MPH, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and Fitbit Advisor, said in the Versa press release. “The nuances of the menstrual cycle have not been as widely studied across populations as have other areas in healthcare. This exciting development by Fitbit could help potentially create one of the largest databases of menstrual health metrics in the world, providing healthcare and research professionals with an unprecedented ability to study menstrual cycles and women’s health with real world data.”

Fitbit’s announcement is getting a lot of media attention. This morning’s UK Financial Times featured an article in the Technology box titled, “Fitbit launches fitness tracker for children,” within which the “female-focused Versa smartwatch” is featured. When it comes to femtech, the world is flat.

As Lauren Goode wrote in The Verge, Fitbit’s design is, “more thoughtful than just pinking and shrinking a smartwatch.”

Health Populi’s Hot Points: We are all patients and consumers at some point, and a plurality of us who have self-tracked activity have done so on a Fitbit. The brand has, until recently, led in market share among activity trackers. IDC reported earlier this month that Apple became #1 in wearable tech volume ahead of Fitbit and Xiaomi.

Mainstream women are not all 18 to 34 years of age who shop at Lululemon or run marathons. We work, we live faith-based lives, we volunteer in communities, we mate, we parent, we caregive to those parents and/or to our kids, we work in the home, we work outside the home, and we are usually the Chief Health and Houeshold Officers in those homes. Life is good, life is complicated, life is difficult, sometimes all at the same time.

There are dozens of apps in the femtech digital health landscape across the continuum of women’s health: for fertility, period tracking, making babies, sexual health, and nursing, as CB Insights’ picture illustrates.

You’ve seen one app, and you’ve seen one, and adding more complication to our lives takes time away from living. This is why women seek streamlining in daily life, and consolidating clicks and apps is one of these demands. If Fitbit can add value to daily living by doing this at an accessible price point for those mainstream women, Beyoncé and we might feel Crazy in Love about it.

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Creating a Space for Spirituality in Medical School

By Aamir Hussain

During my first few months in medical school, I noticed that religion was rarely discussed. As a Theology minor in college at Georgetown University, I knew that religion was an important part of life for many Americans; indeed, nearly nine in 10 Americans report a belief in some divine or spiritual power, and several studies have shown that organized faith communities can play important roles in promoting healthy behaviors. Topics related to spirituality and religious beliefs arose during a course on Healthcare Disparities, but the discussions were only tangential. I had a feeling that students felt uncomfortable discussing such personal topics in the academic setting.

For this reason, I proposed a new student organization for the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago: the Spirituality and Medicine Interest Group. This group aims to create a safe space for discussion of how spirituality/religion affect healthcare. I thought that this idea fit in perfectly with Pritzker’s commitment to all forms of diversity. Last month, the interest group was approved for university funding, and I was awarded Germanacos Fellowship, a $5000 grant to develop a medical discussion series focused on the intersections between spirituality/religion and medicine. These seminars will be partially based on a well-known religious literacy curriculum for healthcare workers developed by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. The Germanacos Fellowship was awarded by the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based nonprofit that aims to make interfaith cooperation a social norm in the United States by promoting inter-religious dialogue and community service.

I am interested in the intersections between spirituality and healthcare because my own religious beliefs inform my choice of career. My passion for medicine stems from a declaration in Islam and various other traditions that saving one person’s life is equivalent to saving all of mankind. Through my work with the Interfaith Youth Core during my undergraduate years at Georgetown University and as an Ambassador for the Parliament of the World’s Religions, I have come to realize that religious communities — like all social structures — can be divisive or, when harnessed correctly, can be powerful catalysts for social improvement. Fortunately, the medical field is especially conducive to interfaith engagement because the concepts of service and human dignity are always implicit. In addition, physicians are one of the most religiously-diverse populations in the United States, and providers are increasingly recognizing the importance of religious literacy in medical education.

Over the next several months, I hope to introduce other students to religious diversity in the healthcare world, and to provide opportunities for my classmates to reflect on their personal motivations and values (whether or not those they come from a religious background) for pursuing medicine. I also look forward to finding connections between existing student organizations and facilitating dialogues on important topics such as mental health, reproductive health, and organ donation.

The Spirituality and Medicine Interest Group is especially open to students who do not identify with a faith background. The religiously-unaffiliated are a growing population in the United States (especially among Millennials), and as a result, it is vital to include nonreligious perspectives in any conversation around religion/spirituality. In addition, given the religiosity of the United States, I believe it is helpful for all medical students (regardless of their own background) to have some familiarity with conversations related to spirituality in order to better connect with many patients.

While becoming a physician, I also want to be at the forefront of the interfaith movement’s expansion into the healthcare world. I intend to demonstrate that religion and science can work together rather than in opposition. I am guided by one of my favorite verses from the Quran: “Had God willed, He would have made mankind as a single religion [or community], but [He intended] to test you in what He has given you; so strive with each other for virtue (5:48).

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aamir-hussain/creating-a-space-for-spirituality-in-medical-school_b_6259026.html

In my opinion, there are people being hospitalized and when they’re all good, they just thank the doctors. The doctors, the nurses and the people who just took care of them while they’re on the process of recovery. However, I would just like them to know that didn’t they think that the doctors, nurses, and people who cared for the aren’t just the ones who really made them heal? I strongly believe God did.

The problem with us humans, nowadays is we really just see and focus what’s in front of us. We always fail to recognize the ones behind the present, right? In the context of this article and relating my reflection to it, all I can say is that we all forget to thank God, appreciate God in every way. He is just behind us always. He may be in disguise- He may e the doctor that made you heal, the nurse who took care of you and the people who made you feel good and motivated to heal. We as people just tend to forget that.

Now, I do believe is not yet late. Now is the right time to repent and be thankful to Him. Appreciate him in every way possible. I’m not saying that we should try our best to figure it out to see Him in everyone’s face but we must do our best to thank Him everytime we have to call Him for something, to thank Him for something and to always bear in our mind that without Him, we weouldn’t be the person we are now.

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Summary of learning theories – Behaviourism vs Cognitivism etc…

Presented are my notes summarised, and also taken from elsewhere, on some of the different learning theories proposed by psychologists and teachers throughout the years. There are many others, of course, however, these are the fundamental ones by big names like Piaget, on which many of the current modern theories are modified versions of these.

I wouldn’t say one is better than the other, it is all contextual and situational. In fact, it is best to use parts of each of them as required. Take the bits you need, apply it, get feedback (very important - a whole art in itself), modify as required, rinse and repeat.

Some definitions:

Behaviourism – “Stimuli-response” relationship with the external world

Cognitivism – Cognitive functions within the brain matures to a point where it can process the reality as it “already exists” in the external world around us.

Constructivism – An epistemology, or philosophical explanation about the nature of learning. Learners construct their understandings of knowledge, it is not acquired automatically.

Constructionism – Considerations about how public knowledge is formed and created. It considers how commonsense ideas, everyday beliefs, and commonly held understandings about the world are communicated to new members of a sociocultural group.

Social cognitive theory (Albert Bandura)

A neo-behavioural approach. Holds that portions of an individual’s knowledge acquisition can be directly related to observing others within the context of social interactions, experiences and outside media influences.

Two types of learning, enactive (own experiences) and vicarious (observing others).

Elements of observational learning include

Attention

Retention

Reproduction

Motivation and reinforcement

Five outcomes of observational learning, these include

Directing attention

Encouraging already-learned behaviours

Strengthening or weakening inhibitions

Teaching new behaviours

Arousing emotion

Cognitive Constructivism (Jean Piaget)

Four stages of cognitive development

Sensorimotor

Preoperational

Concrete operational

Formal operational

Individuals construct their own knowledge, an “internal process”. Schemas. Accommodation and assimilation. Equilibration and disequilibration and its role in learning.

Fresh:

Learning how to learn is a main goal

Useful in understanding how children think, especially at primary levels

Rotten:

Stages are too fixed, variations can be seen and it does not explain many behaviours observed in children developing. Change is continuous as well, not discontinuous.

Overlooks important effects of the child’s cultural and social group

Social Constructivism (Lev Vygotsky)

Marxist. Misnomer. Better called social cognitive theory of learning.

The social environment influences cognition through its tools/artefacts – e.g. cultural objects, language, symbols and social institutions. (Sociocultural theory – the two lines of development…lower natural line and higher cultural line)

Private speech develops thought by organising behaviour

Never talked about learning, just growth and behaviour.

Zone of proximal development

Behaviour is the history of behaviour

Psychosocial development (Erik Erikson)

Eight stages of psychosocial development

Basic trust versus basic mistrust

Autonomy versus shame/doubt

Initiative versus guilt

Industry versus inferiority

Identity versus role confusion

Intimacy versus isolation

Generativity versus stagnation

Ego integrity versus despair

Stages are interdependent, accomplishment at later stages depend on how conflicts are resolved in earlier years.

At each stage, an individual faces a developmental crisis, and two paths are possible. How the crisis is resolved will determine an individual’s self-image and view of society.

Fresh:

Helped start the life-span development approach

Useful in understanding adolescence

Rotten:

Feminists have criticised his notion that identity precedes intimacy, because their research indicates that, for women, identity achievement is fused with achieving intimacy (Miller, 2011).

Adults and mid-life crises

Goal-centred theory (Rudolf Dreikurs)

Acts from one of four “mistaken goals”: undue attention, power, revenge or avoidance

Requires teachers to distinguish between individual students and their (mis)behaviours

Focuses on socialisation processes, relationships and the need to belong

Can be used to build positive teacher/student relationships

Provide positive belonging by interventions

Logical consequences

Fresh:

Builds student-teacher relationships

Strengths based

Logical consequences vs punishment

Sees behaviour as a form of communication

Rotten:

Relies on students wanting to belong to the group

Centred on moral competency

May be less effective with very challenging behaviours

Choice theory (William Glasser)

Neo-Adlerian psychoeducational theory (humanist)

Proposes that all behaviours are attempts to satisfy present and future needs

Focuses on relationships, thoughts, feelings, behaviours

Functions as a preventative approach to classroom management, rather than interventional

Teacher guides by example, rather than assuming a dictatorial approach

Non-rule based

Fresh:

Encourages positive teacher-student relationships

Uses co-operative learning strategies

Developmental approach, meeting basic needs

School/classroom environment central

Rotten:

More effective if part of a school wide context

Long term change process

Used only with individual teachers can be confusing

May be less effective with very challenging behaviours

Assertive Discipline (Lee & Marlene Canter)

Influenced by behaviourist theory

Involves establishment of ‘discipline plans’

Foregrounds teacher assertiveness, as well as approachability and support

Positive reinforcement of compliance

Disruptive behaviours incur sanctions

Fresh:

Provides an ordered teaching environment

Introduces rules with positive and negative consequences

Helps students achieve academic success

Requires good teaching

Rotten:

Presumes absolute authority of teacher

Does not have rigorous theoretical base

Controls rather than changes reason for being

May not support individual differences

Applied Behaviour Analysis (e.g. Paul Alberto & Anne Troutman)

Based on work by Skinner

Authoritative approach to behavioural change

Utilises (Antecedent Behaviour Consequence)

Encourages teacher to use reinforcing consequences to increase or decrease target behaviours

Fresh:

Direct instruction approach to teaching

Focus on changing classroom environment

Uses reinforcement to strengthen pro-social behaviours

Consistency

Rotten:

Focuses on student and not on teacher responses

Teaches avoidance of behaviour rather than understand why a behaviour is inappropriate

Cognitive behavioural theory (e.g. Joseph Kaplan & Jane Carter)

Influenced by psychoeducational (humanist) and behaviourist theory

Encourages self-management skills leading to behavioural independence

Most appropriate for challenging behaviour

Potential to improve student mental health and academic performance

Fresh:

Teaches students constructive thinking skills

Builds student motivation

Strategies for challenging behaviours

Collaborative process

Rotten:

Focuses on internal locus of control

Lack of emphasis on emotions

More effective with cognitively mature children and adolescents

Information processing theory

Knowledge is acquired by constructing a representation of the outside world. Direct teaching, feedback and explanation affect learning. Knowledge is accurate to the extent that it reflects ‘the way things really are’ in the outside world.

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FemTech is Hot, and Fitbit Knows It

The watch will be priced at $199 at retail, a much lower price-point than the Apple Watch at $329. So here Fitbit also has an argument for financial wellness, along with health and fitness.

Let me share some market history through my own experience at CES, which provides some useful context for Fitbit’s announcement.

First, femtech was about pink: specifically, pink bands for wrist-worn activity trackers, like the ones shown here on a Fitbit “pink timeline.”

So I welcome Fitbit to the streamlining of femtech, a personal Holy Grail.

As Lauren Goode wrote in The Verge, Fitbit’s design is, “more thoughtful than just pinking and shrinking a smartwatch.”

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realselfblog · 6 years

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FemTech is Hot, and Fitbit Knows It

The watch will be priced at $199 at retail, a much lower price-point than the Apple Watch at $329. So here Fitbit also has an argument for financial wellness, along with health and fitness.

Let me share some market history through my own experience at CES, which provides some useful context for Fitbit’s announcement.

First, femtech was about pink: specifically, pink bands for wrist-worn activity trackers, like the ones shown here on a Fitbit “pink timeline.”

So I welcome Fitbit to the streamlining of femtech, a personal Holy Grail.

As Lauren Goode wrote in The Verge, Fitbit’s design is, “more thoughtful than just pinking and shrinking a smartwatch.”

The post FemTech is Hot, and Fitbit Knows It appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

FemTech is Hot, and Fitbit Knows It posted first on http://dentistfortworth.blogspot.com

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maxihealth · 6 years

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FemTech is Hot, and Fitbit Knows It

The watch will be priced at $199 at retail, a much lower price-point than the Apple Watch at $329. So here Fitbit also has an argument for financial wellness, along with health and fitness.

Let me share some market history through my own experience at CES, which provides some useful context for Fitbit’s announcement.

First, femtech was about pink: specifically, pink bands for wrist-worn activity trackers, like the ones shown here on a Fitbit “pink timeline.”

So I welcome Fitbit to the streamlining of femtech, a personal Holy Grail.

As Lauren Goode wrote in The Verge, Fitbit’s design is, “more thoughtful than just pinking and shrinking a smartwatch.”

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