Useful Health Apps

In today's modern digital age there are so many different apps available to you to help achieve your health goals. Some benefits of using mobile health applications are: increased ability to access your health information, ability to focus more on prevention of illness and detecting disease early on, improving quality of life, faster feedback from clinicians, better diagnostics, increased affordability, promotion of healthier lifestyle and more confidence in being able to care for yourself.  When selecting your healthcare applications for use you want to ensure that your information will be kept confidential and you want to ensure that the app you are using is created by a valid or well known company or organization.

Your doctors office may provide you with some apps to use that they are also able to interface with. The doctor may be able to see the information you are loading into the app and communicate with you through the app.  This way as soon as you track the information the doctor can see what is happening and contact you if a change in care is needed.

Some quality health applications you can check out for use are:
PTSD Coach: https://mobile.va.gov/app/ptsd-coach
Cronometer Nutrition Tracking App: https://cronometer.com
Round Health Medication Tracking App: https://roundhealth.co
WebMD: https://www.webmd.com/webmdapp
Glucose Buddy Diabetes Tracking App: https://www.glucosebuddy.com
CDC Mobile App:
https://www.cdc.gov/mobile/applications/cdcgeneral/promos/cdcmobileapp.html


References:
Alexander, S., Frith, H. F. & Hoy, H. (2019).  Applied clinical informatics for nurses, 2, 208. Jones & Bartlett Learning: Burlington, MA.