Niche Medical Applications – Blood Pressure Chart

I recently was contacted by a guy named Matt from Poland who had built a simple web application that tracked Blood Pressure called Blood Pressure Chart. If you want to really see what he’s created in action, you can see his own Blood Pressure records, chart and statistics.

I really like the simple implementation of such a niche item such as Blood Pressure. It seems like niche applications for things like Blood Pressure or even blood sugar levels for diabetes could be very useful. I think that many people are just overwhelmed by the idea of using a full PHR software system, but they would be likely to use a simple application like this to track a specific health problem they’re trying to track.

Some work and thought still needs to go into how the doctor and patient will access and document a website like this, but it’s interesting to see the application of technology into such a tight niche problem area. Maybe the focus of an all encompassing PHR product is the wrong direction and instead the focus should be tighter niche products that don’t overwhelm the patient.

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

2 Comments

Click here to post a comment
   

Categories