MOCAcare Review: Heart Monitor in Your Pocket and Blood Pressure Cuff on Your Wrist

The essence of digital health is making patients the point of care – no matter how unexpected the method. Could you ever imagine that there will be a time when you could measure your heart rate with a device slipped into your key chain holder or your blood pressure on your wrist? MOCAcare does both of that. Moreover, it provides its measurements in good quality and gives meaningful information even for laypeople. The heart of the matter MOCAcare’s tagline can be familiar as the title of a famous Graham Greene book about the destructive power of pity, but also as a song by Pete Doherty’s former band, The Libertines. The latter says that it is only you who can hold a light to your misery. And while I’m not sure that the British rock band has ever thought about anything else than their own systematic self-destruction, they are quite right about how you should approach your own health. You are the number one responsible for your body and organism. Digital technologies help you get to know yourself better and signal if your health does not go into the wished direction through measuring vital signs and health parameters. This data can be shared with medical professionals; making the patients the point of care and turning the patient-doctor relationship more into a partnership than a hierarchical linkage. However, this happens only with clinically reliable and disruptive technologies – such as MOCAcare. The Palo Alto-based start-up sent me their MOCAheart and MOCAcuff â€...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers future gc3 Health 2.0 heart heart health heart rate Innovation Personalized medicine review wearable wearables Source Type: blogs