MyHeart Counts 17+
Stanford University
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- Free
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Description
Apple’s new ResearchKit allows you to participate in important medical research studies easily through your iPhone. Stanford Medicine invites you to join the MyHeart Counts study to improve our understanding of heart health. The MyHeart Counts app is a personalized tool that can help you measure daily activity, fitness, and cardiovascular risk. It can also help you better understand your own heart health and contribute to our understanding of how to keep hearts healthy around the world. Join our research effort and make your heart count today!
The app can help you measure your activity through the sensors in your iPhone or the Apple Watch, or any wearable activity device linked to Apple Health App. If you are able, you can also do a walking fitness assessment. Plus, using your cholesterol results and blood pressure, the MyHeart Counts app will provide a calculation of your risk for future heart attack or stroke, as well as a relative “heart age.” By helping you track your activity levels and giving you feedback, we aim to help people be more informed and empowered in their health. We may also ask you to test different approaches to help you be more active so we can understand how mobile apps in the future can help prevent heart disease.
Key Features:
Record and track your:
• Physical activity through your iPhone or a Apple Health App-linked device
• Fitness level, if you are able, through a 6 minute walk test
• Risk score for heart disease or stroke, and your corresponding “heart age”
Receive reminders and notifications about:
• Your activity and sleep
• Surveys on Physical Activity Readiness and other health factors
• Entering blood pressure and cholesterol levels to calculate your risk score
Get educated:
• Learn about your activity level and walking fitness
• Learn about your risk factors and how to improve
• Links to learn about heart disease and stroke and the American Heart Association’s “Life’s Simple 7” guide to heart health
Eligibility:
To join the Stanford MyHeart Counts research study on heart health, you need to:
• Be 18 or older
• Reside within the United States, United Kingdom or Hong Kong
• Be able to read and understand English
Install the app today and learn about your heart, help research, and join together in the fight to stop heart disease!
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
What’s New
Version 2.4.1
Thank you for being a member of the study and to those that reached out about bugs. This build fixes the bugs that were introduced while trying to support iOS14. Enjoy!
Ratings and Reviews
It works
... but doesn't do much
The important thing is that you take part, to enable aggregate collection of information.
Especially now that it works outside of just USA.
Starting up
I would have preferred to have an instruction list to start up. I could refer to it rather than muddle along not knowing what to do or wether I was doing it correctly.
Even the free part is disappointing
I signed up because I thought it was a serious data gathering exercise, and that I would learn something in the process.
So what is it? Every day you fill in the same questionnaire about whether you carried your phone all the time, and how long you slept (to the minute!). Every day you are also asked stuff about your latest blood test, but nothing about the factors that can change every day, like the food you ate, or your weight.
You are then given a graph that recaps your activity over the day before, the last 24 hours (technically different from yesterday, but wouldn't 'today' be more useful info?), and the last 7 days. Except they all give you the same count, so totally useless to the user.
The only mildly useful bit is the info given in the 'learn' tab but here again, don't hold your breath as it's watered down info easily available on the net.
Oh, and there is a 6 minutes walk exercise that compares the distance you walked to allegedly other users. You might have thought that it would take your pulse before and after. It doesn't.
App Privacy
The developer, Stanford University, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Sensitive Info
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Stanford University
- Size
- 136.1 MB
- Category
- Medical
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.4 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 5.1 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Frequent/Intense Medical/Treatment Information
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2015 Stanford Medicine
- Price
- Free