Personal Health Data into EHR – Fitbit physical activity tracker

Personal Health Data into EHR – Fitbit physical activity tracker

Fitbit is a popular physical activity tracker, which automatically tracks steps, burned calories and helps you to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Collected physical activity data from the Fitbit armband are automatically synchronized with a remote web server via your smartphone throughout the day. The Fitbit.com web site can be used to view statistics and compare your records with friends. You can also use Fitbit to enter new registrations like food, weight, sleep and specific activities.
Recorded physical activity data are automatically transferred via Runkeeper HealthGraph data-aggregator platform to a Diabetes Diary application, which is a Personal Health Record running on a smartphone. Once the data is imported, you can find summary information about the daily total number of steps and burned calories among other statistics in a heading of each day’s record list.
Data can be also transferred further from the Diabetes Diary to the electronic health record system, OpenMRS. In this demonstration we only select to send physical activity data, which are immediately transferred to the OpenMRS via HL7 FHIR protocol.
A clinician who opens a web interface of OpenMRS system, can view chronologically sorted list of physical activities, including both background activities and workouts.
This video is one of three videos made as part of the cooperative project together with The Norwegian Directorate of eHealth in 2017, part of the project “Datautveksling – fra pasient til helsetjeneste”.