Observers of the digital health ecosystem seem addicted to the idea that it is accretive when in truth it is commutative. News of the demise of sleep tracker Zeo, the closure of Google Reader through which many of us have reviewed health news, and the imminent  withdrawalof the best (IMO) version of the best Twitter client through which many health tweet chats have been conducted should hopefully serve to remind us of the transitory nature of digital environments.

Personal health data is certainly going to continue to be collected. It will be at the centre of our genome-informed, personalised medical future.

However, we aren’t going to be collecting it via a panoply of trackers, gadgets, wristbands and glasses.

We no more want external health peripherals than we do a keyboard for a tablet computer. They are extraneous, inconvenient, and will only be used by health hobbyists.

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