As part of our innovation efforts especially in the healthcare space, we were doing a proof of concept recently around tracking Gratitude levels. There is a great article from University of California, Berkeley here about this. The summary of the article is that tracking gratitude has a profound impact on an individual's Physical, Psychological and Social Well being and has a direct impact to their Workplace performance.

Our Innovation Labs went ahead and hacked a script together to intercept the Amazon Dash Button to call the QuestionPro API to easily track the number of times you are grateful throughout the day.

This is what you get on a dashboard when you track your gratitude with QuestionPro over a period of time:

For a video of how it works in action check the following video out :

Yes, the hack is simple and fun - but the possibilities are endless especially in the Healthcare Internet of Things industry. Imagine, for example, the easiest interfaces to keep track of patient's pain levels and report that back to the health care providers.

For those who are curious here is the code snippet - it's 16 lines of code !(unfortunately linkedin doesn't allow for embedded code snippets and I had to put in an image :

About the author: Anup heads up the Product and Engineering efforts at QuestionPro and also makes occasional ramblings here.