国家地理 你的医疗未来(3)

In the old model of medicine, patients' health data was collected only intermittently¹, primarily in clinic visits,

在旧有的医学模式中，患者的健康数据主要是在看医生的时候才断断续续地记录下来，

and scattered² among paper files and siloed electronic medical record systems.

并且四散于纸本文件或相互不流通的电子病历系统中。

Today there's a far better option:

今天有一个更好的选择：

personal technology that can monitor vital signs continuously and record health data comprehensively.

个人化科技可以持续监测生命征象，并全面记录健康数据。

Just a decade after the first Fitbit launched the "wearables" revolution, health tracking devices are ubiquitous.

在第一支Fitbit手环推动“穿戴式装置”革命后短短十年，健康追踪装置就无所不在。

Most are used to measure and document fitness activities.

大多用于测量和记录体能活动。

In the future these sensing technologies will be central to disease prevention, diagnosis³, and therapy.

在未来，这些感测技术将会成为预防、诊断与治疗疾病的核心。

They'll measure health objectively, detect changes that may indicate a developing condition,

这些装置将客观地测量健康状况，侦测可能显示病情发展的变化，

and relay patients' data to their clinicians.

并把患者的数据传送给他们的临床医师。

1 intermittently   

adv.间歇地；断断续续

参考例句：

• Winston could not intermittently remember why the pain was happening. 温斯顿只能断断续续地记得为什么这么痛。 来自英汉文学
• The resin moves intermittently down and out of the bed. 树脂周期地向下移动和移出床层。 来自辞典例句

2 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

3 diagnosis   

n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断

参考例句：

• His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。