Empirical Health for Watch 17+

POTS, vitals, bp, heart rate

Empirical Health, Inc.

    • 4.7 • 88 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Empirical Health helps your interpret your Apple Watch vitals, create a whole health care plan, and get medical care from a real doctor. Get help with
* POTS testing, tracking, & treatment
* improving deep sleep (including sleep apnea testing)
* Improving vo2 max
* Managing blood pressure,
* ...and more.

Here are the major features of Empirical Health.

== Metrics ==
Summarize your Apple Watch vitals into an instant health report. Metrics summarizes 21 biomarkers across five categories:
* Heart health: resting heart rate, heart rate recovery, ECGs (electro cardiograms), irregular rhythm notifications, heart attack risk (based on the American College of Cardiology's heart attack risk calculator).
* Sleep: sleep duration, sleep onset, deep sleep, REM sleep, and sleep apnea risk.
* Lungs: oxygen saturation (SpO2), respiratory rate, and VO2 Max (cardio fitness).
* Exercise: cardio, zone 5 cardio, and strength training.
* Mental health: depression and anxiety risk.
* Other: HRV (heart rate variability) and temperature.

== Create a customized care plan ==
Begin a comprehensive treatment program for POTS & dysautonomia (including medication, salt, water, and recumbent exercise using an adapted version of the CHOP / Levine protocol), sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and other health conditions.

== Doctor chat and video visits, covered by insurance ==
Schedule video visits and chat with a board-certified primary care doctor. Medical care is available in 30+ US states and covered by most major insurance. Our doctors can order labs, imaging, and prescriptions if medically necessary--in 30+ US states. We cover the full scope of primary care, including POTS, dysautonomia, long covid, sleep apnea testing, proactive heart health, and more.

== Today ==
Monitor your heart rate, Apple Watch sleep stages, and journal your symptoms. This is helpful as a POTS tracker, overall health monitor, and heart analyzer.


== About Empirical Health ==
Empirical Health's mission is to shift healthcare from reactive to preventive. We're founded by a doctor and an engineer who previously worked at UC San Francisco, Google, Kaiser, Cardiogram, and more.

== Compatible apps & sensors ==
We're compatible with Apple Watch, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Ultra, and can also import and analyze data from third party sleep, health, and fitness apps such as Autosleep, Athlytic, SleepWatch, Tachymon, Welltory, Sleep++, and other heart rate & HRV monitors. Empirical works with all Apple Watch / iwatch health sensors: heart rate, ECG/EKG, HRV, blood oxygen saturation, activity, deep sleep, REM sleep, sleep stages, afib history, vo2max (cardio fitness), heart rate recovery (cardio recovery), temperature, depression and anxiety risk, sleep apnea breathing disturbances, and more. We also work with blood pressure cuffs (as long as they work with the Apple Health app).

What’s New

Version 2.3.0

Empirical Health 2.3 lets you export PDFs of your heart rate charts to share with your doctor (Premium), lets you pinch to zoom on the heart rate chart, and includes more detailed information on each health metric.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
88 Ratings

88 Ratings

etsaii ,

Finally an health app that’s actionable!

Love that this app uses my watch app data with an actual doctor to help me better understand and manage my conditions!

mrs.emily.jackson ,

Please, don’t use an app to diagnose POTS…

It’s great that POTS is getting more awareness. However, POTS is more than an effect of long-Covid. It’s been glamorized since Covid because of the uptick in patients who present with it. Apps like these tend to offer “quick diagnoses and fixes” but in reality, if you do suspect you have POTS, it is better to go to an actual doctor (preferably cardiologist or neurologist) who specializes in autonomic testing. There are several other types of dysautonomia that have similar symptoms and these conditions are managed differently. These are physical tests, you can’t self-diagnose. It’s not a diagnosis you particularly want, either, if that’s not actually the condition you have. POTS patients are continuously gaslit and we have a systemic problem with getting doctors to believe our symptoms. Without the autonomic testing to back up your diagnosis, it will be much, much harder to find the right treatment that works best for you. There are also different subcategories of POTS. Some have low blood pressure, some have high. If you recommend “increase salt” to those with high blood pressure, it’s not safe without regular check-ins with your doctor to monitor your overall health in conjunction with any treatments you’re doing at home. Stay safe 👌🏻

Developer Response ,

Hi Mrs Jackson! In our programs to get tested for POTS, you always receive
medical care from a real board-certified doctor. These programs also include physical tests: orthostatic vitals, ECG, and blood tests. Some of these can be performed at home with the aid of an Apple Watch or other smart devices, and some are performed at a local lab.

To address your specific concern about blood pressure, our at-home sit-stand procedure includes measuring blood pressure using a wireless cuff. This guides both the diagnosis and treatment decisions, such as what medication to prescribe. As for autonomic testing, our Chief Medical Officer wrote a more detailed guide on when people need to do a tilt-table test: https://data.empirical.health/p/do-i-need-a-tilt-table-test-to-confirm

Obviously, we believe medical care has to be rigorous and trustworthy. And we hear from many patients who are frustrated that they've been gaslit by the medical system--that's why we built this app, so that patients can get empathetic medical care and live their best lives.

Let me know if that answer makes sense! Feel free to email us: hello@empirical.health.

farmezj ,

Just use the Health app

Doesn’t really provide any additional information from the Apple Health app. I got suckered into the free trial and forgot to cancel. Now I’ve paid for an app that repackages information Apple already presents in a very consumable way. Additionally, some of the information presented is just wrong - I.e. presenting a low resting heart rate as something you should be concerned about when they have the data to see that your active and the low heart rate is a result of your fitness. Don’t make my mistake…

Developer Response ,

Hi! Since this review was written, we've added some pretty major new features -- including a Metrics screen, ways to track your care plan on the watch, and medical care in 30+ states. Let me know what you think about the most recent version! As for resting heart rate, we always try to flag a metric that's out of the normal range since, even if you're athletic, it's still possible the low heart rate is the result of an underlying problem. We think it's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to these types of things.

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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Health & Fitness
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  • User Content
  • Usage Data
  • Sensitive Info
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