Many startups have launched mobile personal response systems (mPERS) and smartphone apps so that an elderly person can alert loved ones and care providers if they fell down and need help. The final category in this section, number of times fallen, is a key one for the aging population whose risk of falling is much higher. Jawbone-owned BodyMedia, on the other hand, has an FDA-cleared armband available that does offer heat flux tracking. While the second patent was granted, it did not include heat flux as a metric. The patent has not been granted, and since then Apple submitted another patent for health sensing earbuds. One of the applications, for earbuds tracking biometrics includes heat flux as a potential metric. In 2010, MobiHealthNews rounded up a few patent applications that Apple submitted.
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Body heat flux, like galvanic skin response, measures activity through heat change.
Basis Band, which was acquired by Intel in March, also tracks galvanic skin response, along with other metrics including blood flow, activity, and ambient temperature of the skin.Īpple has had body heat flux tracking on the mind since at least 2010. The product has yet to launch, but is available for preorder on the company's website. The company completed a successful Kickstarter campaign in July 2013. The product, called the PIP sensor, is designed to help users learn to reduce their own stress through gamified biofeedback. Its device, a Bluetooth-enabled galvanic skin response sensor, is also a game controller. Galvanic skin response is a method of measuring the electrical conductance of the skin through sweat, which can indicate a change in someone's psychological or physical state. Galvanic, a Dublin-based startup, tracks this metric exclusively. Read on for MobiHealthNews' breakdown of Apple's Health app.ĭiagnostics: Diagnostics measured on the Health app so far include number of times fallen, galvanic skin response, and body heat flux. Apple missed at least a couple of important data fields that will disappoint some users and will leave out a considerable number of digital health companies' data sets. Keep in mind this is an app that is a part of a beta iOS8, so it is likely that Apple will improve the app's capabilities before it's real launch later this fall.
In the pages to follow, MobiHealthNews has outlined what kinds of health and fitness data Apple's Health app aggregates. The health and fitness tracking platform race appears to be on, and of the three big technology companies that have stepped on the field, Apple has shared the most about its platform so far. Just last night Forbes reported that it learned from an anonymous source that Google has designs on launching its own fitness tracking platform, called Google Fit - not to be confused with the company's shuttered personal health record platform Google Health. Here's the app that the FDA added to its list of those that might meet the legal definition of a medical device, but that it would choose to exercise regulatory discretion over: "Mobile apps that allows a user to collect, log, track and trend data such as blood glucose, blood pressure, heart rate, weight or other data from a device to eventually share with a heath care provider, or upload it to an online (cloud) database, personal or electronic health record."Īpple's HealthKit and Health app followed a somewhat similar unveiling by Samsung a few weeks ago for its SAMI fitness data tracking platform. The addition comes just a day after the FDA responded to a three-month old Freedom of Information Act request from a tech publication about its meeting with Apple last year and revealed a summary of their discussion. It added a description of an app that fairly well describes Apple's recently announced Health app.
Food and Drug Administration quietly updated its list of mobile medical applications that it would not regulate.
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