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Samsung health app has a place to log blood pressure, blood sugar, and oxygen. I hate having to use two apps to keep track of exercise and health info. Samsung even has the option to export the information as a pdf to take to doctor visits. I love the fitbit device as well as the food tracking, goals and such. The ability to keep track of bp as well would make it perfect for me.
I was thinking how could it be possible for a smart watch to read blood pressure. This maybe a money maker for you but with most smart watching being able to switch bands you could develop a special band that inflates. When someone wants to measure their blood pressure they switch bands. Because you already had it as apart of the dashboard at one time, the update should be very much work. Buy a wrist blood pressure cuff, inspect how it works. develop a band that would inflate at the watches command and presto you have an new item you can sell. I know in the medical field they are starting to look at devices that would measure vitals for at risk patients they are looking at fitbits as a option. You can either embrace these opportunities to grow fitbit to be all that it can be or your can hide from legality. One day though, a company is going to partner up with the medical field and Health insurance and you have to ask yourself. Will that be fitbit?
Expand dashboard to add health related items. Example:Connect to or allow documentation of glucometers, or blood pressure machines. Having one location to document our health is fabulous and makes health a priority.
FitBit...read the above quoted comment carefully and understand this: If you force us to look elsewhere for places to log what is important for us, we will eventually end up finding another company to get our tracking devices from. One that cares enough about it's customers to actually allow them to track *all* of the data that is important to them.
While most of us (I presume) would prefer some type of data transfer of information from another product, I think most would accept just being able to enter our own data! Creating a food intake tracking tile cannot be an easier task than activating a tile that a person will enter simple numeric values to track either blood pressure or blood sugar.
Being in the medical field, I already know there are products that do this, just not a wristband or watch. But a simple way is to allow people who want to keep track of their blood pressure or blood sugars just to document them on the dashboard just like we do with diet and water.Right now I have multiple apps to track multiple things, I wound prefer just one.
If Fitbit can have a scale that syncs why can't they have or allow a Blood Pressure monitor that syncs. How could it be anymore difficult then the scale that syncs???
A manually entered blood pressure space on the app, like where you can enter water intake or weight. I love my fitbit flex 2 and don't want one of the bigger bulkier watches to be able to add in blood pressure.
I have never seen an accurate watch size BP device. But a space to add data on the app or an interface like with the scale or calorie intake seems an easy solution.
I received fitbit as a gift, without doing research on alternatives. I have been impressed with fitbit, until now, having discovered that you can't even manually log blood pressure. (Or better yet, import BP data, or even better, integrate with apps like Omron Wellness) Yet in looking over the forums, I see that you can play music, pay for things, get texts and phone calls, and more, on various tracker models. I thought the primary purpose of the fitbit was to get and stay healthy, and yet even the application won't let you log blood pressure? NIH lists the following risk factors for heart disease (notice that blood pressure is listed first):
High blood pressure
High blood cholesterol
Diabetes and prediabetes
Smoking
Being overweight or obese
Being physically inactive
Having a family history of early heart disease
Having a history of preeclampsia during pregnancy
Unhealthy diet
Age (55 or older for women)
One of the biggest benefits of healthy diet, weight loss, physical activity and better sleep is lowering blood pressure - it is a very good indicator of progress from doing all the things fitbit is encouraging us to do. Removing the option to log it, while adding all these non-health features, is an abdication of the health and wellness mission. I am now going to look for a new app to integrate fitbit, myfitnesspal and other health data. And when my new Charge 2 is needing replacement, I will be seriously considering other brands.
Blood pressure and Blood sugar used to me on the dashboard. So bringing it back wouldn't be a hard option. Understanding why they took it away might help.
Fitbit, you are losing customers and money to apps/portals/trackers that do allow tracking this kind of information. Just *tracking* this information, not magically deriving it from sensors on the watch. All we want is a custom tracker option for the dashboard that we can use to graph our history with things like blood pressure, blood glucose, oxygen, heart rate variability, etc. You should be striving to unify all of the data that a customer might want to collect rather than having them also join 3 other Quantified Self apps (and possibly even paying them a yearly fee while barely touching your dashboard anymore). There is a *LOT* of competition in the fitness tracker space at this point, and aside from things like community and dashboard features, not a lot of reason for people to maintain brand loyalty. Differentiating yourself by having the most flexible and comprehensive dashboard is *really* what you wat to be doing, not ignoring simple requests. Apple, Samsung, Polar and Garmin (just to name a few) are not going away anytime soon. Differentiate yourself by listening - it's the right thing to do.
As a user of and a (currently wavering) loss-making Fitbit stock holder, I would really like to understand why Fitbit will not include this obvious new/old feature request. If there is a good reason then please share it, because it seems like a complete no-brainer and the competition does this already. A wirelessly connected blood pressure monitor would be an immediate purchase for me, and I am sure for millions of other Fitbit enthusiasts already invested in the platform.
I agree, a wireless BP monitor would be a great addition to the Fitbit family. I'd be happy to simply have a panel in the app to manually record my daily BP but neither option seems to be of any interest to the developers!
FITBIT Feb Newsletter: "You've probably slid a blood pressure cuff onto an arm at least a few times in your life. You've also probably had a doctor time your pulse while at a check-up. There are lots of numbers that can tell you a something about your health, but two of the most common are resting heart rate (RHR) and blood pressure." And "It's important to have a lot of awareness when it comes to your body, both in the impact of your actions and ways to counteract everyday stressors. Monitor your key health metrics, add simple positive habits into your lifestyle, and you're already on your way to a much healthier heart." By Jenna Birch Now can we have a Blood Pressure App for keeping measurements or better a wireless interface like the scale?
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