Combining health tracking with incentives, rewards, and challenges can contribute to consumers' lowered blood pressure, according to a study that looked at historical data from higi, a health kiosk company. The company examined data for 159,000 people with hypertension over nearly three years, from September 2012 to April 2015.
The data higi collected included activity from higi's health kiosks,...
As a GfK survey found earlier this year, just 6 percent of UK and US consumers currently own a wearable device, but according to mobile industry association MEF's recent survey of 15,000 consumers in 15 countries across 5 continents, about half of consumers know they exist.
"It's fair to assume most of the above users are wearing some kind of health-tracking wristband such as Fitbit," MEF...
Apple's Passbook app
This week 9to5Mac dropped its latest report on the rumored all-in-one health tracking app that Apple is reportedly working on in tandem with a wristworn, health sensing iWatch device. The report includes a number of "complete recreations of screenshots" of Healthbook's user interface that the publication received from anonymous sources.
As has been reported before, the...
