Technology and its role in today's world are increasing very rapidly. For buying clothes, we sometimes prefer to do it online on different shopping sites. For interaction with friends or families, we use mobile phones to chat or talk with them. For financial purposes, we use an online mode of payment. Our whole life revolves around technology.
For health purposes also, we use technology nowadays. This process is called eHealth, in which a person uses information and technology to support their health and to take care of their well-being. This article will help you know about the type of technologies that you can use to improve your health.
Technology in improving your health
Virtual reality
Many healthcare professionals use this VR technology nowadays, and people seem to like it too. It provides an environment to a patient to help them overcome their fear of treatment by offering them a concrete and comfortable environment through VR.
Monitoring of heart rates
Using MyFitnessPal, Fitbit, Apple Watch, and Runkeeper apps, one can track their exercise, heart rate, and how many calories they've burned. These apps also help to collaborate with others and promote competition between them by allowing the users to share their completed workouts.
Use of apps
Specific apps made for payments, shopping, and accounting serve unique purposes. Similarly, apps for healthcare are also available to improve mental and physical health. They can also provide you with some relaxation tips and can help you to monitor and stick to your diets.
Wearables
Nowadays, wearing devices like the Apple Watch and Pebble also attains one or the other technology. These technologies get linked to the apps that monitor your health, sleep, movement, and heart rate for the day. They then provide you insight into your health through the data collected and will further give you tips on how you can bring improvements.
Apps for nutrition and diets
Many nutrition apps have been made to help users develop healthy eating habits. It provides new recipes that are nutritious and help in creating a healthy meal plan. Allrecipes and Yummly are the apps for this purpose.
