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How to add medical information to your Android phone
Your phone can help save your life in an emergency
Not a day goes by that we don't use our smartphones. For many of us, it never leaves our side. It either sits snuggly in a pocket or is gripped tightly so that we don't drop it and crack the screen. We even keep phone chargers around the house and in our cars, so we never face a dead battery. One thing we don't give much thought to is how helpful our Android phones can be in the case of an emergency. From remembering emergency contacts to collecting medical information, your phone's medical emergency services can be a blessing that you hope you'll never need but are there when you do.
Google looks to be getting ready to copy Apple Health's best feature
It could help you track your medical records, lab results, and more
Keeping track of your health and fitness is a whole lot more manageable these days. Thanks to phones and smartwatches, tracking your heart rate, caloric intake, exercise goals, and other metrics is easier than ever. Google is testing out a new application focusing on medical records, in order to give users a better understanding of their health and well-being.
Google wants to crowdsource data for medial research with its new Health Studies app
The app uses federated learning to keep user data private
Google makes a lot of experimental apps, but the company's latest one couldn't have landed at a more opportune time. The Google Health Studies app allows users to sign up and participate in research studies to advance medical knowledge — and its first project tackles respiratory illnesses.
Heads up, app developers: there is a really good reason that the government licences people to practice medicine. Unless your app is smart enough to go through four years of med school, you probably shouldn't claim that it can diagnose diseases. The developers of "Mole Detective" on the Google Play Store and similar apps have reason to reflect on this, as the Federal Trade Commission has slapped them with fines and restricted them from claiming that their apps could reliably diagnose melanoma.