How to keep record of your health digitally
Taking care of your health has always been a priority, especially during the current pandemic situation. People have become more concerned about their health and willing to go the extra miles to keep them fit. While taking care of your health, it is also important to keep records of your various health parameters. Doctors always recommend checking your vitals regularly and keeping a record of them. Due to time constraints or busy schedules, most of us could not get time for the same. Considering this issue, many companies have introduced digital solutions for this, which could be convenient to use and could save your time as well. There are various digital ways through which you can store all your health information. Here you would need to invest just once, and these devices would be able to take care of your health vitals. Let's get to know these ways.
Manual storage in Phone
Your smartphone could be a device to store your health-related data. You can use the native apps of phones such as notes or drive to store these details. There are various apps available such as Med Advisor, Spark people and MyFitnessPal. These apps also support barcode scanning that helps to track other information. Apps like Cronometer help to track your food and the nutritional content if you are watching your weight.
Use phone sensors
Using your phone's sensors could also help to track various health activities. An app like a Run keeper, which uses your phone's GPS to keep track of your outdoor activities such as running or swimming. With the use of the accelerometer, apps like Run or Zombie track indoor activities. This same concept is used for the Sleep Cycle Alarm clock to monitor the depth of your sleep. Your phone camera also works as a sensor. With the Instant Heart Rate app, you will be able to measure your heart rate by placing your fingertip on the camera lens.
External devices
You can also connect external devices to track your health parameters. Some devices such as blood pressure monitor, Weight scale, Glucose meter, Activity trackers, Peak flow meter, and heart rhythm monitor can connect with your phone to track the data.
Using Electronic Health Records
Your health service providers can also link your date with Electronic Health records. Here patients can easily access their health records such as appointments, medications, tests, visit summaries and vital signs. You can access this through your phone as well as desktop. You can also transfer the data from your phone to the Electronic health records.
Using Lifelogger
A life logger is a device that helps to record a user's behavioural activities. Gordon Bell is one of the well-known Life loggers that capture the date of your daily activities with smartphone help. This app will help record all the records related to your sleep, fitness activity with time, date and weather.
Using Accessories
There are various accessories available today which can actually track your health-related information if you wear it. One of the most popular ones is the Oura ring. This is a ring-shaped tracker that helps to track your physical activities as well as sleep. It is expertly vetted and can sense the temperature as well. Moreover, it can also measure your mood swings.
Using WHOOP strap
This is a unique device that has been launched to get personalised stats about sleep and overall fitness daily. This comes in a wrist band shape, and it is waterproof. Hence you can use it even if it is raining or if you are swimming. Apart from this, it comes with a battery that runs for up to 5 days long once charged. The WHOOP device helps to collect your physiological data and provide you with precise insights about your fitness. You can connect it to your mobile as well as desktop to check the stats. Here you would need to pay the membership of 30USD for the services.
Using these above-mentioned devices or applications would certainly help keep your health in check. You would be more alert about your body's complications since these devices and apps would send you the notifications first. No matter in which part of the world you are, your health buddies would always be with you to take care of it.
