Contribute to heart disease studies using the Cardiogram app to monitor your heart rate

We already tell here how the Watch has been Apple's choice to improve the health of its users. With the help of HealthKit, the initiatives to make this happen continue to emerge and take more and more place. The application Cardiogram it is one of those initiatives that can even save lives.


Cardiogram app icon: Heart Rate Monitor

With the help of an Apple Watch, this application allows monitor your heart rate, analyzing them and transforming them into graphs. Today, the application has gained its version 1.0, which came with several new features. The highlight is the native compatibility with watchOS 2, which makes it possible to monitor and also view progress without being tied to the iPhone. Support for 3D Touch was also added and the interface of both the watch and the iOS app was improved.

Another great novelty is the partnership between developers Brandon Ballinger and Johnson Hsieh with the University of California, San Francisco (University of California San Francisco). Those who use the app can be invited to participate in the studies "Health eHeart", which aim to end heart disease through technology. For this, the developers are working to improve the algorithms of their app so that, with the help of the Apple Watch sensors, it is possible to notice changes in the user's heart rate.

You can download and also contribute to the search the application for free on the App Store. According to the developers' website, an Android Wear app is also on the way.

(via MacRumors)