HealthTech February 20, 2019
Juliet Van Wagenen

From smartphones to smartwatches, mHealth tools can contribute to the fight against heart disease.
Once every 43 seconds someone in the United States is struck with heart disease. Moreover, in the U.S. alone, about 610,000 people die of heart disease every year, accounting for 1 in 4 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

One of the primary issues with treating heart disease effectively, however, is that often much of the treatment — namely, changes in diet and exercise habits — happens outside of the walls of a healthcare organization. This is where new mobile health tools can step in to fill the gap, providing patients...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Provider, Technology, Wearables
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