Why you should screenshot your health data

That fitness tracker on your wrist knows more about you than your doctor does. I'm Kim Commando for The Current. It's my five-star rated newsletter read by almost a million folks like you. Sign up for free at GetKim.com. Here's a trick almost nobody's doing yet. Open your Apple Watch or fitness app and screenshot your key stats, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, VO2 max, sleep trends. Then drop those screenshots into an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. Say, analyze this and tell me what you see. I did it with my own data, and AI told me I'm operating at an elite athlete level. I screenshot that and send it to everyone. Your watch is collecting incredible data every single day, and you may never look past closing those rings. Let AI be your free personal trainer, asking it to come up with a workout based on your free time, how long you should spend in zone one through five. You might find out that you're an elite athlete too, or that you really should just go to bed. Get my newsletter at GetKim.com. Next up, a call from my weekend show, The Kim Commando Show. Enjoy! Anne in Milwaukee, you're up next. Glad to have you with us. Hi, Anne. Hi, Kim. I'm a longtime fan. I first heard you back in March 2022 when you started on WLS on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Oh, nice. I've been a big fan since. I tell everybody about you. In fact, I have an embedded software engineer friend who started reading you very religiously, and even he's a fan. I think she's the smartest one in the room. I love that. Yeah we think you great I think you a great role model for women of all ages With that said back in 2024 you had talked about and you were the first one to reveal something that had happened with Ascension It a medical group Oh yeah It a big data breach Yeah like three out of every four Americans had their medical data Oh, that's all. Yeah, everything but my shoe size is out on the dark web now. It's there. Hey, by the way, Ann, it's there. I just wanted to let you know. I know. We're meaning to ask you, what is your shoe size? Because we need to finish that report on you. Well, it used to be a seven, but now she's seven and a half. Oh. Yes. Yes. Kim has planted my feet firmly in the ground, so they're a little bigger. So you had talked about this, and yeah, my information was hacked. But that and mine recently, and unfortunately I've been going through some health stuff, and I've had to talk to several doctors for opinions, and every single office that I go to will say, would you be okay with the doctor recording this session? And I always say no, because I'm thinking if they hack this particular group, now my voice print is out there. Am I being too overcautious? Or since some of these places have been hacked, these medical groups, have they kind of upped their security so this isn't so much of a worry anymore? What are your thoughts on that? Well, you just gave away enough of your voice right here for somebody to steal your voice. We can disguise it. We can get you one of those voice changers like. Well, you know what? Medical ID theft is important. I mean, in all seriousness, I mean, the real issue at hand is that let's say, God forbid, you need a kidney transplant. and somebody uses your medical ID, your information in order to get that kidney transplant. And then you go to the, then you're like, okay, I need my kidney. They like no no no we already did that You like whoa wasn me not at all And so that the big thing But as far as this change healthcare breach that you talked about 192 million Americans three out of four Americans got hit by that. You know, it's so easy for us to become complacent because it seems like every other day there's another data breach. But let's talk about the doctor and using AI. About 30% of all physicians are using what's called AI Scribe. So when you go to the doctor, they are recording everything that you say. I mean, so you may go in for just a general physical, and then they ask you about how much alcohol you're drinking, if you're having sex, or whatever it may be, and you start talking about everything. All that is going right into your record, okay? And, you know, you may still tell your regular doctor that, but maybe you wouldn't. Now, you can, like you said, you can absolutely say no. And you can also ask like, what type of AI scribe tool are you using? How long is my recording being stored for? Okay. You can go into your patient portal and look for anything strange and get that taken out. Because I will tell you that for some reason on my medical record, it had that I had some type of blood disorder. Oh, no. You never told us about this. I'm so sorry. Thank you. Okay. I don't have a blood disorder. Well, I take it back then. Okay. I don't know how it got on there. I don't know where it is. I go to UCLA to get my eyes checked. And they're like, oh, you have a blood disorder. I'm like, I don't have a blood disorder. Okay. So I actually had to write like three letters to the Mayo Clinic. I said, you need to take this out of the Epic system. Because I don't know how it got in there. I don't have a blood disorder. I'm not on medications. I'm not doing anything. Maybe there some guy named Cam Kimando who has the blood disorder They just mix up the files Well I started thinking about that Maybe there was somebody using my medical ID Which would be really scary Yes for somebody Yeah, I mean, because how else did, how else, where did that just appear out of nowhere? Now, if a vasectomy shows up on there, you know someone stole it. Well, there's that guy. Oh, that's true. Did you hear about that, Ann? No. Oh, here, Andrew, go ahead. There was a guy that we had who wrote in, and he was examining in slow motion and magnifying our YouTube videos because we did the YouTube version of the podcast. And he was sure that Kim Commando was actually a man. Yes, he was positive. Because I have big hands and feet, but I don't have an Adam's apple. No, but you can get that shaved down. Can you get that shaved down? Oh, yeah. It's probably in your medical history. With the blood disorder and the vasectomy. That's right. Everything's all there. That's right. So what you want to do is you want to look on your patient portal, your explanation of benefits. When you get those, we get them via email. How many of us go like, yeah, whatever? You know, I'm not going to look at that. But you really want to do that. Freeze your credit, you know, at all four credit bureaus. People say three. There's actually four. Right. And so does that help you out? Oh, terrifically. And again, you're the best. I love you. Take care. Well, you're awfully sweet. Thank you for taking my call. You betcha. Anytime. It's always a pleasure to have a nice friend like Ann. Yeah. Thanks for taking her call, Kevin. Oh, I mean, Kim. Darn it. Darn it. Let it slip. Hey, want to stay in the tech now without wasting your time? Join nearly a million folks who get my free newsletter, The Current, where you'll see the latest in tech in just five minutes every single day. You're just going to love it. It has a five out of five star rating over on Trustpilot. Sign up right now at GetKim.com. That's GetKim.com.