  Despite the growing attention of researcher, healthcare managers and policy
makers, data gathering and information management practices are largely
untheorized areas. In this work are presented and discussed some early-stage
conceptualizations: Patient-Generated Health Data (PGHD), Observations of Daily
Living (ODLs) and Personal Health Information Management (PHIM). As I shall try
to demonstrate, these labels are not neutral rather they underpin quite
different perspectives with respect to health, patient-doctor relationship, and
the status of data.

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