Gadgets in health it Convergence of Wellness and Wireless Healthy Smartphones and Personal Wellness Gadgets Lori A. Brooks Assistant Professor Health Care Information Systems   lbrook17@jccc.edu http://blogs.jccc.edu/hitech/ www.twitter.com/jccc_hcis

Healthy smartphones Health Apps vs. Medical Apps Health apps help consumers to maintain a healthy lifestyle or offer health-related services. Health Apps are targeted at consumers rather than medical professionals. The most popular categories of downloaded health apps are exercise, stress, and diet. Categories: Fitness and Nutrition, Calculators and Chronic Disease Management.

Fitness and Nutrition Apps MyFitnessPal Free online calorie counter and diet plan. Lose weight by tracking your caloric intake quickly and easily. Runtastic Automatically records elapsed time, distance, calories burned, speed, elevation and tracks exercises via the onboard GPS and through satellites

Fitness and Nutrition Apps Fooducate  Grades your food, explains what's really inside each product, and offers healthier alternatives. Weight Watchers Track your food, weight and activity. Snap and Track tool makes tracking a snap. Search thousands of meal and recipe ideas.

Calculator apps BMI Calculator Instant Heart Rate BMI is a reliable indicator of total body fat, which is related to the risk of disease and death. Instant Heart Rate Place the tip of your index finger on phone’s camera and in a couple of seconds your Heart Rate will be shown. 

Chronic disease management apps Glucose Buddy Data storage utility for people with diabetes. Users can log: - BG  - Carbs (Food)  - Medication (Insulin Dosages) - Activities  - A1C - Blood Pressure - Weight T2 Mood Designed to help you track your emotional experience over time and to provide you with a tool to share this information with your health care provider.

Chronic disease management apps Asthma MD Keep a journal of your asthma easily and quickly. Visualize your asthma activity on a color graph. Share asthma diary and graph with your physician. Heart Pal Log blood pressure readings, your weight, and medications you take on a daily basis to see a clear picture of your heart health. Set pill-taking reminders and schedules so you won’t forget a thing.

Personal wellness gadgets Fitbit Wireless wearable activity and sleep tracker Aria wireless smart scale Fitbit App: wireless sync to devices Jawbone Up UP App

Personal wellness gadgets Nike Fuelband Sportswatch GPS Nike Running App Nike Kinect Training with Xbox 360

Personal wellness gadgets Hapifork Measures how long it took to eat, amount per minute and intervals between for servings LUMOback Posture Belt Sensor that vibrates when you slouch Syncs to App

Personal wellness gadgets Withings Aura Smart Sleep System

Convergence of Wellness and Wireless Shift from REACTIVE to PREVENTIVE health care Boomers (1/3 of population) will put huge stress on health care system as they reach retirement age Weakest link is ability to manage chronic disease

Convergence of Wellness and Wireless Consumers with a vested interest in their wellbeing Digital health is the fastest growing industry segment of consumer electronics Will hospitals, providers and insurance companies incorporate these new technologies? Potential to help both patients and clinicians monitor vital signs and symptoms By 2016, wearable wireless medical device sales will reach more than 100 million devices annually Personal and work life come together Financial health incentives for participation Use of consumer fitness gadgets in these programs Privacy concerns?

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