Researchers are working to develop a wearable sensor to measure stress, anxiety and depression based on changes in cortisol levels and other parameters.
Tag: mobile health
Wearable device designed to measure cortisol in sweat
Stanford researchers developed a wearable device to measure how much cortisol people produce in their sweat. Cortisol is critical to many physiological processes.
Mobile devices improving heart health step-by-step
Stanford heart doctors bank on digital health to improve heart care in the future by monitoring encouraging exercise, detecting and tracking conditions like atrial fibrillation, and more.
Fitness trackers accurately measure heart rate but not calories burned, Stanford study shows
Your fitness tracker knows how fast your heart beats when you bicycle to work and how your heart flip-flops when your sweetie surprises you with a kiss. …
Prescribing mHealth: One strategy proves helpful for blood pressure control
Many patients who resist taking a blood pressure drug are willing to try a combination wearable device and phone app that helps them control their own …
A look at the MyHeart Counts app and the potential of mobile technologies to improve human health
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
The public wants easier ways to participate in medical research, study shows
Informed consent, the time-consuming process for obtaining permission to conduct health-care research on a person, was developed long before computers, the Internet and smartphones. Last …
Build it (an easy way to join research studies) and the volunteers will come
Just nine days after the launch of Stanford Medicine’s MyHeart Counts iPhone app, 27,836 people have consented to participate in this research study on cardiovascular health. “To …
Harnessing mobile health technologies to transform human health
An estimated seven in ten U.S. adults say they track at least one health indicator, and 21 percent of this group use some form of …
Heart devices get a mobile makeover
Emerging diagnostic heart devices are going mobile. And by leveraging advances in smartphones and sensors, they're able to perform their functions better, faster and cheaper …