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Track-a-holism (or trackaholism, whose adherents or victims are known as track-a-holics or trackaholics) is the latest addition to the lexicon noted by Canada’s Word Spy, Paul McFedries.
That’s when it was the subject of a panel discussion at the Digital Health Summit, held in conjunction with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The session, held on 9 January, was titled “Track-a-holism: A Disorder Worth Having?” and described thusly:
Most recently, it appeared in a Globe and Mail article by Adriana Barton (“Tracking down the root of our self-tracking obsession,” 27 February 2017): “Digital-health industry leaders such as Daniel Kraft, a Harvard-trained physician and medical-device inventor, predict that in the future, ‘track-a-holism’ will be the norm.”
Murray's Review of Medical Journalism 