Blood Pressure Application

[Achiever]

Mrs. Achiever has high blood pressure and is looking to monitor it from home. We are looking for a good blood pressure checking app for the iPad or iPhone. Does anyone have one they have used/recommend/recommend staying away from? Also, the app would obviously require accessories to strap onto her arm. If anyone has any experience with these it would be appreciated.

FWIW, she is using an iPhone 4 and a first generation iPad. Thanks.

 

[balamw]

Mrs. Achiever has high blood pressure and is looking to monitor it from home. We are looking for a good blood pressure checking app for the iPad or iPhone. Does anyone have one they have used/recommend/recommend staying away from? Also, the app would obviously require accessories to strap onto her arm. If anyone has any experience with these it would be appreciated.

FWIW, she is using an iPhone 4 and a first generation iPad. Thanks.

AFAIK this is the only one currently available of several announced at CES: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ihealth-bpm/id391469141?mt=8 ratings are so-so.

http://www.ihealth99.com/ihealth/bp3.html

You might need to get a dock connector extension cable to use this with the iPad or iPhone in a case.

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[DuckSoup]

Buy a good home-use blood pressure machine (I recommend a good Omron one). They all have software and some connect directly to your PC. I have an Omron IT(?)790

There ARE apps to record the data onto. In that I recommend Heartwise. There is an iPad and a iPhone version. It's VERY good and has various exporting options. Website is http://www.swengcorp.com

Mike

 

[balamw]

As long as you don't mind entering the data yourself, or using software on your computer instead of iPhone/iPad what DuckSoup says is correct.

Note that they are working on an ANT+ profile for blood pressure monitors so apps like digifit and wahoo may be able to tap into them wirelessly.

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[mhn1234]

BP monitoring

There is an app called (i think ) Heartwise that will monitor your blood pressure without any extra hardware -but, having high blood pressure myself i wouldnt trust anything except a dedicated monitor like the ones mentioned in other replies

 

[DuckSoup]

There is an app called (i think ) Heartwise that will monitor your blood pressure without any extra hardware -but, having high blood pressure myself i wouldnt trust anything except a dedicated monitor like the ones mentioned in other replies

Heartwise is the one I mentioned above. I use it in conjunction with my separate blood pressure monitor. The charts and data in the software for the bp monitor are so-so, while Heartwise is pretty good and has very easily exportable data.

Mike

 

[balamw]

There is an app called (i think ) Heartwise that will monitor your blood pressure without any extra hardware

To use HeartWise, simply measure your blood pressure in the normal manner and type in the results.

You still need some additional hardware to actually measure blood pressure. The iPad can't do that unassisted.

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[Achiever]

Thanks to all for your input. You've given me some very promising leads.