1. Gadgets in health it Convergence of Wellness and Wireless
Healthy Smartphones
and
Personal Wellness Gadgets
Lori A. Brooks
Assistant Professor
Health Care Information Systems

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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. 

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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

11. Personal wellness gadgets
Withings Aura
Smart Sleep System

12. 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

13. 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?

14. Opportunities at JCCC
Associate of Science with Emphasis in Health Information Systems
Degree program for students interested in beginning a career pathway in Health Information Systems
Certificates
Health Information Systems Implementation and Support Specialist
Health Information Systems Workflow Management and Training Specialist
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