Founder Tracey Welson-Rossman On How Journal My Health’s Technology Can Make An Important Impact On Our Overall Wellness

In recent years, Big Tech has gotten a bad rep. But of course many tech companies are doing important work making monumental positive changes to society, health, and the environment. To highlight these, we started a new interview series about “Technology Making An Important Positive Social Impact”. We are interviewing leaders of tech companies who … 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 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

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