According to a Pew study released this morning, a large
percentage of Americans are using technology (smartphone apps,
spreadsheets, websites etc.) to monitor their health--more
evidence that eHealth and autoanalytics will be an industry to
watch this year.   The study surveyed 3,014 adults living in the
United States, and of the 69 percent of respondents who said
they track their health, 21 percent use some form of technology
to do so. Additionally, one in five smartphone owners has a
health app on his or her phone. Of these smartphone health
trackers, 16 percent were 18-29 year-olds and just 1 percent
were 65 or older.   “When is there going to be a shift from
people using mobile devices for entertainment to people using
these devices for health?” Susannah Fox, an associate director
of the Pew Research Center’s Internet, told Inc.. “We’re still
just at the beginning.”  The eHealth space has been buzzing with
activity recently, as start-ups rush to create apps that use
autoanalytics to track physical and emo