Digital platforms enable people to better identify their health problems. Thanks to ICT, operating systems become more reliable and the options for preventing, detecting and treating diseases are increasing.
Applications that are developed within Digital Health, to improve the quality of health services and maintain excellent care of people's lifestyles, are expanded thanks to the technology that companies develop and acquire for their systems.
In this way, Apple launched a virtual app available for its devices, which generate studies related to Digital Health, in order to detect diseases and prevent them with routines of specific activities and exercises.
Access to this digital platform will be available for any individual smartwatch, it will allow the user to have at their fingertips the control of their medical situation.
Access to this digital platform will be available for any individual smartwatch, it will allow the user to have at their fingertips the control of their medical situation.
The three areas that will cover this new digital are the following ones:
- Women's care through the Apple Women's Health study: implemented by Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health. It will focus on the menstrual cycle and the situations of each woman who lives during her periods to avoid, to the greatest extent possible, the physical and emotional discomfort that occurs with hormonal changes. It will also be sought to support in situations such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), infertility, osteoporosis, family planning and menopause.
- Apple Hearing Health Study: Worked in collaboration with the University of Michigan. It aims to collect data that suggests how the ear structure behaves once it is exposed to certain sound frequencies for extended periods and thus obtain accurate samples to detonate preventive actions. The records will be transmitted to the World Health Organization to generate strategies that eradicate hearing loss.
- Heart Care: Will be issued through the Apple Heart and Movement Study, combined with Brigham and Women's Hospital. It aims to evaluate the mobility of people and the heart impulses that expel with each action and thus record the heart rate and control the risks to suffer cardiovascular problems in the future.
The main purpose of these strategies is to improve the quality of life of patients by encouraging better health care undertaken by the recording of medical data and the software that develop Artificial Intelligence aimed at covering all user needs and being absolutely available.
Digital Health is progressing to obtain more reliable and accurate results; with the objective of patients to improve their habits, without the need to go to the doctor, in cases where just by using a virtual application, the solution can be found.
