Learning from Your Own Health Data with Sara Riggare and Gary Wolf

Howie and Harlan are joined by journalist Gary Wolf, author of the new book The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe, and patient researcher Sara Riggare, who has spent years studying her own experience with Parkinson's disease to better understand and manage her health. They discuss how systematic self-observation can help people ask better questions and learn more about their own health. Howie examines Sweden's use of AI as a second reader of screening mammograms; Harlan asks whether AI will streamline healthcare billing or fuel an arms race between providers and insurers.

Show notes:

AI Radiologists

"Health system will use AI instead of radiologists for breast imaging 2nd reads"

"Lunit Expands AI-Powered Breast Cancer Screening Across the Stockholm Region"

"Artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in screening mammography in Sweden: a prospective, population-based, paired-reader, non-inferiority study"

Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH

The Quantified Self

Quantified Self: Self-Knowledge Through Numbers

Gary Wolf: The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe

Quantified Self: Personal Science Research Group

"N-of-1 Trial Design: Single-Patient Crossover Methodology"

What is Parkinson's?

Sara Riggare: "The Red Dot and the Blue Dots: My ISDM 2026 Keynote"

Sara Riggare: "Precision Medicine in Parkinson's Disease—Exploring Patient-Initiated Self-Tracking"

Sara Riggare: "The Burden of Tracking"

TED Talk by Gary Wolf: "The Quantified Self"

Gary Wolf: "The Data-Driven Life"

"What Is Biohacking and Is It Safe?"

Gary Wolf: "A Conceptual Framework for Personal Science"

AI Billing

"What Is Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)?"

"Agentic AI and the race to a touchless revenue cycle"

"Analysis examines AI in hospital billing as spike in complex patients adds nearly $1 billion in extra costs"

"Hospital Coding Intensity Analysis"

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