Smartwatch App Can Now Monitor Parkinson’s Remotely

Smartwatch App Can Now Monitor Parkinson’s Remotely

The FDA recently granted 510(k) clearance to market H20 therapeutics’ prescription-only Parky App for the Apple Watch smart watch. In a longitudinal study published in Science Translational Medicine, the app has promise as technology to support patient-client...
Donate Meals for Free With Your Exercise

Donate Meals for Free With Your Exercise

Are you looking for a new way to stay motivated for healthy daily exercise? Use San Diego-based Vizer’s eponymous mobile app and you can convert your daily workouts into meal donations at U.S. food banks. You can also win rewards with the same good habits. The...
New Apple Watch Feature Reminds You to Take Your Meds

New Apple Watch Feature Reminds You to Take Your Meds

How do you remember to take your maintenance medications? Try as I might to minimize the prescriptions I have to take, the number of daily pills increases. I currently organize my meds with a plastic box with four compartments for each day of the week plus a 3×5...
Do Smart Watch Alerts Actually Prevent Strokes?

Do Smart Watch Alerts Actually Prevent Strokes?

Just because wearable digital health devices can track biometric data and send alerts, that doesn’t mean the alerts make a difference in health outcomes. In 2015, we wrote about an Apple Watch user who contacted his cardiologist after noticing extreme heart rate...
Wearables Can Give Early Warning of COVID Infection

Wearables Can Give Early Warning of COVID Infection

Predicting a virus such as COVID-19 is far better than waiting for symptoms to appear. With early notice you can take steps to ameliorate or treat a disease before it progresses too far. Early detection can also protect other people from infections by quarantining an...