Nudge, a health and fitness app company, has released a HIPAA-compliant tool that allows health providers to view health data integrated from consumer wearables — such as Fitbit or other fitness tracking devices — on a web-based platform that is the first of its kind.
The platform, Nudge Coach, allows providers to see individuals' data streams in components such as hydration, fitness, diet and sleep, and as a composite "nudge score," which gives a general picture of the wearable user's overall health. The platform also includes a real-time, private messaging tool for healthcare providers to offer feedback to users.
"By enabling that user information to be professionally analyzed it allows for a more useful and meaningful interaction with that very same data, which is infinitely more useful to the consumer," said Nudge cofounders Mac Gambill and Phil Beene.
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