Health monitors are lighting up on mobile devices to enhance care, based on a new Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology study, according to Medical Daily.
Toronto, Canada-based Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute researchers studied the chronic kidney disease app's effectiveness.
Here are five notes:
1. After six months, researchers found the app alerted users of unknown health changes. Twenty-seven percent of users with normal blood pressure found they had hypertension.
2. The app identified 127 medication problems.
3. Of those medication problems, 59 percent needed intervention to avoid future harm.
4. Most of the users reported less stress about their health and average blood pressure readings decreased.
5. The app offers patients more control of their treatments, and also allows physicians to customize care for individual patients.