Moblie health apps

Mobile health and medical applications (“apps”) are apps you can put on your smartphone.  These apps can be used for many reasons.  They help track your eating habits, physical activity, test results, or other information. Just like websites, anyone can develop these apps. Make sure you know who made the app you are looking to use. There are apps that connect you to your online health portal and those used by third parties. 

When you download an app it may ask for personal information including your location, e-mail, birthday and other identifying information. Ask yourself if the information they are collecting is necessary to use the app. If it is a third party app ask yourself if they really need the information, and why. You need to protect your personal information and not give it out unnecessarily.  Apps that connect you to your doctor may be more secure than those that don’t.

Here are a few fitness and healthy eating apps:

MyFitnessPal (free) https://www.myfitnesspal.com/

HealthyOut (free) https://mobile.healthyout.com/

Fooducate (free) https://www.fooducate.com/

7minuteworkout  https://7minuteworkout.jnj.com/

Mobile health apps,(n.d). Retrieved from https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/mobile-health-technology/apps