Smartphone

Plano announced the release of its Plano Time Machine, a free online tool designed to calculate an individual’s time spent using smart devices during his or her lifetime.

Patients who received an at-home BP monitor and coaching via a smartphone app to promote healthy behaviors experienced similar reductions in BP as patients who used a BP tracking app and monitor, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

Smartphone applications that use algorithms to assess the risk for skin cancer appear to have poor and variable performance, according to a systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies.

Working on a smartphone in low-light conditions can induce elevated IOP in patients with normal tension glaucoma, according to findings published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

Detailed directives based on proven practice for hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia treatment are not always features of diabetes apps, which means people with type 2 diabetes must be careful when selecting apps to help manage their diabetes, according to findings published in Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews.

Interactive apps show potential learning benefits for early academic skills like mathematics in children aged younger than 6 years, according to results from a systematic review published in Pediatrics.

A smartphone app’s crowdfunded research helped identify dry eye and its risk factors, according to a study.

The 1-lead electrocardiography, or 1L-ECG, smartphone application demonstrated “excellent diagnostic accuracy” for detecting atrial fibrillation among a cohort of primary care patients in the Netherlands, according to findings recently published in Annals of Family Medicine.

CHICAGO — The integration of wearable devices into clinical care is still in its beginning stages, but the devices’ use for ECG and the diagnosis of various arrhythmia disorders remains a top priority for research, according to a presentation at Cardiometabolic Health Congress.

Weight loss interventions with game elements, especially competition, result in significantly greater increases in physical activity among overweight and obese adults compared with those that do not have game elements, according to study results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.