Live Strong

Julie Gilliam

2012-05-30 Student slides

JulieG – LiveStrongPaula – NikeGeetha – MyFitnessPalLauren – DailyBurnNiranjan – LoseIt!Linda – LoseIt!Dave – NoomFuad – WeightWatchers Charlene – Absorb WaterKirby – MedHelperMeghan – RunKeeperSam – Mayo ClinicJulieB – SleepCycle Jeff – TriageAmy – Worry Box

Julie GilliamMobile Health Design

Julie GilliamMobile Health Design

Simple Ease-to-Use Personal Sharing

Health App: Nike Training

Paula Power

Nike Training

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The Workouts

• I found this app by typing in fitness to the app search on my Iphone

• Pros: user friendly, easy to access videos of unfamiliar exercise moves, can set own music from library, makes fast workouts more accessible

• Cons: I really enjoy this app, so it is difficult to identify a con. The app performs as it should.

Opinion of the App

myfitnesspal (Geetha)

Weight-loss App for the IPhoneLauren Parks

daily burn TRACKER app

Tracks nutrition, physical activity and weight• Nutrition information for extensive listing of

foods• Physical activity listings for a range of

workouts and ability to build personalized workouts

• Input and track customized weight loss plan

Interesting Features and Design

Easy to use interfaceClean and simple designSocial features• Invite friends to join• Receive customizable reminders about physical activity• Set specific personal goals for nutrients, such as sodium, fat or sugar intake

Loseit App (NKarnik)

• Very intuitive structure• Allows setting of weight

loss goal and rate of loss• Uses a BMI based

algorithm to calculate caloric needs– Some limitation on

dynamic nature of caloric use and loss

• Has a basic social network element – interfaces with facebook and twitter

Loseit App• Good Points

– Ease of use– Large database of foods– Access to national brand

restaurants and groceries

– Social networking– Ease of input of data

using smartphone or computer/web access

– Barcode reader is great

• Areas for Improvement– Accuracy of nutritional

information is unclear– Motivators seem to wear

off– Network tends to diminish

over time as some achieve goals and others drop out

• How to keep people engaged?

– Any room for suggestions/advice – a more active app?

Linda DePotoMay 30, 2012

• A friend told me her family lost a lot of weight with it• How it works:

– After creating a profile, you choose how quickly you want to lose weight (1/2 to 2 lbs per week), and Lose It! calculates your calories per day

– You enter your food and exercise as you go throughout the day, and Lose It! adjusts how many calories you have “left” for the day each time you make an entry

• What makes it interesting:– It is incredibly simple yet it works! As long as you are disciplined

enough to enter all the data, the app will tell you in black and white how to change your behavior (i.e., how much you should eat) for the rest of the day

– You can link it up to your friends to create a social support network.

Linda DePotoMay 30, 2012

• A friend told me her family lost a lot of weight with it

• Where it is lacking:– It doesn’t offer any tips/suggestions on how to construct a

healthier diet that will help you lose weight yet still enjoy good tasting foods and not be hungry. Is the weight loss achieved through this app sustainable?

• Key Take-Aways:– It can be a nuisance to maintain a food/exercise log, but

it’s a general recommendation for people who are trying to lose weight. Lose It! makes it easy because it’s on the phone, and it also automatically fills in the calorie info.

Homepage&Social Support

TrackingFood

• Positives• Easy to use, people seem to like it.• Tracks diet and exercise.• Offers suggestions.• Alerts on task bar

• Negatives• Hard to find foods – no pre-entered restaurant or

packaged foods

• Positives• Easier to use – lots of restaurant and packaged

foods• Tracks exercise

• Negatives• No alerts• No suggestions

WeightWatchers

(Fuad)

WeightWatchers

• Designed for use with the browser in most smart phones (iPhone, iPad, and Android)

WeightWatchers

• Quickly compares products, send to your Tracker and add as a favorite.

• Cook: Kitchen Companion App for iPad (what to cook and how to cook it).

• Calculator Apps: At the grocery store or a restaurant? Calculate points values on the fly, wherever you are. Get details:

WeightWatchers

• Track and calculate points

• Logs weight

WeightWatchers

• Gives great food ideas

• Barcode Scanner for food shopping can be!

WeightWatchers

• Local Support

Absorb Water

An app that helps you tell how hydrated you are

What does this app do?

• This app records everything and anything you eat and drink and calculates how much water you have absorbed

• Built in “hydration alerts” let you know if you need more water.

• The “Mellow Yellow” chart allows you to compare your urine color to the corresponding state of hydration on your phone

• The more hydrated you are the more “light” in color your urine will be. At the end of each day, your last urine color will be recorded into your personal log.

INFO:

Category: Health and FitnessReleased: February 05, 2012Price: $2.99Company: iLifeTouchFound on Mac App StoreRatings: 4+ stars

mHealth Design CourseWeek 1 Assignment

Kirby Lee

Med Helper Prescription Appby EarthFlare

Description:MedHelper is prescription/medication compliance and tracking App designed to help individuals and caregivers keep track of and schedule prescriptions, medications, refills, doctors, pharmacies along with relevant personal information such as allergies and blood types. Alarms can be set to notify you when medications need to be taken or when prescriptions are getting low and need refilling. Once added, refills can be automatically updated by a simple touch of a button.

Inventory tracking follows and logs the time and dose taken and presents it in an easy to read timeline. A “take as needed” feature let’s you manage and log off-schedule prescriptions such as pain management medications. Multiple profiles allow caregivers the ability to manage as many people as they need. Data can also be exported and shared by email in multiple formats.

Available on Android and iOS, free.

User Reviews:5 star 441 Average Rating: 4.3 (771 reviews)4 star 206 Downloads: 50,000 on Android3 star 632 star 191 star 42

My Review of Med HelperI was looking for apps to help patients improve and document medication adherence. I searched google for reviews of apps that help with medication adherence, as well as the iTunes and Google Play stores using a keyword search. There are many medication apps available, but most just focus on providing drug information, serve as a personal medication record, or simply provide reminders. I wanted to find an app that could serve as a tool to help patients not only remember to take their medications, but also collect data on current and historical medication use for research purposes.

My Review of Med Helper

What makes the app unique, is that in addition to alarms and reminders, the app offers the following functions:1. Able to track inventory to prevent running out of medication2. Creates a log of past doses taken3. Multiple profiles for family healthcare coordination4. Flexible scheduling and customization of current regimen– Shows a list of color coded doses for the current day grouped by scheduled

time. Take as needed doses are colored light blue. The times in small font are when you set a dose status in the following categories:

• Orange: Overdue doses that haven’t been marked as taken or skipped.• Yellow: Times with both taken and untaken meds.• Green: For doses that have been marked as taken or skipped.• White: Doses in the future yet to be taken. Allowing you to take meds

before the reminder goes off.5. Exportable reports to share information with providers, caregivers and family members via email and downloaded as an html or Microsoft Excel 2000 file. Perhaps the most helpful feature from a clinician/researcher perspective.

Screenshots

Screenshots

Meghan Hamrock

How it works & audience

• Running population with results/activities linked to Twitter, Facebook, Garmin, smart phones– Found out about RunKeeper

through Twitter & InsideTracker• Uses mobile GPS to track runs,

hikes, walks, in-the-gym aerobic workouts, etc.

• Self-motivating and progress checking tool

• Measures calories, miles, distance, fitness reports, races, classes, etc.

www.runkeeper.com

Health App Comments

Official ratings & reviews

iPhone 4/5Android 5/5Website 3/5My rating 3/5

www.runkeeper.com

Overall, people prefer Endomondo, My Tracks, MapMyRUN or Strava over RunKeeper due to accessibility, comfort, accuracy, & features

Health App CommentsMy thoughtsPros

• Allows you to track your progress visually• Allows for uploads from running watch sources; “drop pin” capability• Allows for goal setting• Following friends and joining classes/groups • Has other aerobic activities rather than just running

Cons• No motivation or suggestions• No way to repeat already uploaded exercises/same running routes• No iPod capability• Basically a Facebook for runners

What I learned• How many other running apps there are• Capabilities/tracking system techniques that work like Google Earth

www.runkeeper.com

Mayo Clinic Meditation(Sam)$2.99

“A clinically validated method of meditation you can easily practice using your iPhone or iPod.”

• Uses musical chords and circles to teach users breathing techniques for meditation

• Option of either a 5 or 15 minute program• Begins and ends with “Healing Thoughts”

that user can share with friends• Based upon research of Amit Sood, M.D. – a

Mayo Clinic consultant for Complementary and Integrative Medicine

App Review

• Many users assumed this would be a quality app because of the visibility and credible reputation of Mayo Clinic.

• The majority of user reviews express disappointment in the quality of the app, with some even stating that the sounds heightened their anxiety.

• However, a few reviewers did attest to have benefitted from the app.• Rating: 3/5 stars

• Personal assessment:– This was the second app to appear in my search for “healthy alternatives.” I had been

searching for an app about healthy cooking with substitutes. – The brand equity of Mayo Clinic seems to drive most of the downloads, and justify the

cost of $2.99– After reading the reviews, my perceived benefits of the app did not outweigh the cost.

Therefore, I have not tried it personally. – I think more efforts should be made all-around to promote complementary medicine

options. The presence of this app in the store by a respected brand may help bring about some awareness about the importance of mental health, even if the app still needs a lot of work to be successful.

– It is difficult to measure and evaluate the app with soft data involving how tranquil someone feels after using it.

– I like the audio-visual approach. The “healing thoughts” may be useful for some as well. With some innovation in design and development, this type of app could be very useful to many people in improving their quality of life.

Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock by Maciek Drajak Labs

“The Sleep Cycle alarm clock is a bio-alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you when you are in the lightest sleep phase. Waking up in the lightest sleep phase feels like waking without an alarm clock - it is a natural way to wake up where you feel rested and relaxed.”

• Easy to find in App Store – Ranked #2 under Health and Fitness Top Paid Apps

• Very highly rated– 4.5 Stars with 14,281 ratings

Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock (Julie Bromberg) by Maciek Drajak Labs

• This app takes advantage of mobile devices’ built-in capabilities to measure sleep phases– Or more accurately, a correlate of sleep phases, since the

true measure of sleep phases is brain waves

“Since you move differently in bed during the different phases, the Sleep Cycle alarm clock is able to use the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor your movement and determine which sleep phase you are in. Sleep Cycle then uses a 30 minute alarm window that ends at your set alarm time and wakes you in your lightest sleep phase.”

Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock by Maciek Drajak Labs

• If it works effectively, could have huge impact since sleep can have a large impact on quality of life

• The app claims it has been tested, but provides no other information to support this claim

• Unknown if it is based on research or has been scientifically evaluated for effectiveness, but reviews are overwhelming positive that it works

• Is this app really valid? Or could the 14,000+ people who rated it be wrong?

The Worry Box

The Worry Box app found on my Kindle fire Interested me to seach further because:

1. Lifestyle section2. Free

3. Inviting Cover Page4. Based on CBT

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE APP

1.EASILY NAVIGATED 2. COLORFULL 3. FAQ 4. EASY WORRY JOURNAL 5. LINKS TO ARTICLES WHAT I LIKED BEST- RELAXATION AUDIOS

WHAT I DISLIKE ABOUT APP

ADVERTISMENT ON OPENING PAGE CONFLICTING STATEMENTS. “NOT FOR

ENTERTAINMENT”/ NOT A PROFESSIONAL TOOL

NOT SIMPLE READING/TEXT LINKS TO OTHER HELPFUL APPS THAT COST

MONEY(MAY BE A CONTINUATION OF THE FREE APP)

FELT LIKE IT LEFT ME HANGING WITHOUT RESOLUTION