Growth in Health Wearables Highlights Need for More Self-Reported Data
Factoring in self-reported data alongside health wearables and traditional medical insights gives clinicians a fuller picture of our health.
Tracey Welson-Rossman
The Transformational Potential of Owning Your Own Health Story
These days, many of us are approaching our old routines with a newfound sense of appreciation and gratitude. We’re also re-evaluating and prioritizing the most meaningful aspects of our lives. For many of us, we’re more focused than maybe ever on the importance of directing our health and wellness so that we might be better … Read more
iOS 15 and the Future of Healthcare
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) always brings interesting announcements about updates to hardware, new products, and changes to the iOS platform. The conference, which took place in early June, was very focused on iOS 15, otherwise known as Monterey. What was significant about this announcement was how iPhone and Apple Watch users will have increased … Read more
How do we learn about COVID-19 long-haulers? Tracey Welson-Rossman’s new app helps them track symptoms
While many Americans can see the end of the pandemic in sight, for those who contracted COVID-19 and have developed chronic health conditions as a result, the pandemic’s effects will linger for a while. As scientists continue to learn about these patients — long haulers, as they’re often called — Tracey Welson-Rossman of Chariot Solutions and TechGirlz has launched a tech tool … Read more
Journal My Health Launches App Using Patient Data to Craft Personalized Health Portraits and Improved Outcomes
Free, personalized app helps patients improve their health outcomes by easily tracking symptoms and sharing reports of their health experience with providers.
Journal For Your Health
Written by Marta Becker, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Journal My Health. When you were a kid, didn’t you love connect-the-dots? The best puzzles were the complicated ones, where you couldn’t tell what the picture was going to be until you started connecting the dots, and then slowly the image would emerge of a dolphin … Read more
Inside ‘post-Covid’ clinics: How specialized centers are trying to treat long-haulers
NBC News surveyed dozens of “post-Covid” clinics across the country to find out how they’re helping patients recover from an illness with no known cure.
Fatigue, headaches and chest pain: Medical experts try to establish ‘long Covid’ diagnosis for patients with lasting symptoms
Some Covid-19 patients are experiencing shortness of breath, fatigue, headaches and “brain fog” for months to nearly a year after their initial illness. Now, global medical experts are working to better diagnose and treat them for what they are tentatively calling “long Covid.” Earlier this week, the World Health Organization hosted a global meeting with … Read more
What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?
When Mount Sinai Hospital opened its Center for Post-Covid Care in May, it was New York’s — and the country’s — first such facility. The doctors there expected to treat patients who had been severely ill or hospitalized. By that point, three months into the pandemic, they knew that the coronavirus could cause harm to … Read more
Post-COVID lungs worse than the worst smokers’ lungs, surgeon says
A Texas trauma surgeon says it’s rare that X-rays from any of her COVID-19 patients come back without dense scarring. Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall tweeted, “Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smoker’s lung we’ve ever seen. And they collapse. And they clot off. And the shortness of breath lingers on… and on…. and … Read more
