This is hugely interesting - I’ve had these exact symptoms since my bout of Covid last Christmas. Went for an easy training run over Pen-Y-Ghent in March and keeled over.
Doctors have been telling me that I’m very healthy and my dizziness, fatigue, memory issues and heart rate spikes are environmental: get more sleep, less stress, eat clean etc. I’ve gone from running 75-mile ultra marathons to barely managing hour long hikes without being wiped out.
Mentioned the timing with Covid a couple of times but they were so sure it couldn’t be related that I figured they’d be right.
I’ll be keeping an eye on this app so that I can be sure to get it when it comes out…would be great to take some data back to the medics so they can make some evidence-based decisions around my care! Amazing idea and thanks so much for highlighting it, Rory!
Great article and shows how the integration with wearables can really help identify and define chronic conditions when the app is focussed on particular symptoms. It does also show the challenges startups in this sector face when trying to monetise the business. I see this time and time again - great idea, using established wearable platforms to define the issue and formulate a solution. But persuading users to pay for it is the hard part.
The key in this is partnerships with organisation that see the benefit (in cash terms) of montoring the data as a preventative measure so that they adopt the platform as part of their "offer". I think that is possibly more important that developing a wearable device (and as a hardware product designer that pains me to say that!) given the proliferation in smart wearables.
But those decisions are not easy to make and it is part of the learning process a startup has to make.
This is hugely interesting - I’ve had these exact symptoms since my bout of Covid last Christmas. Went for an easy training run over Pen-Y-Ghent in March and keeled over.
Doctors have been telling me that I’m very healthy and my dizziness, fatigue, memory issues and heart rate spikes are environmental: get more sleep, less stress, eat clean etc. I’ve gone from running 75-mile ultra marathons to barely managing hour long hikes without being wiped out.
Mentioned the timing with Covid a couple of times but they were so sure it couldn’t be related that I figured they’d be right.
I’ll be keeping an eye on this app so that I can be sure to get it when it comes out…would be great to take some data back to the medics so they can make some evidence-based decisions around my care! Amazing idea and thanks so much for highlighting it, Rory!
Great article and shows how the integration with wearables can really help identify and define chronic conditions when the app is focussed on particular symptoms. It does also show the challenges startups in this sector face when trying to monetise the business. I see this time and time again - great idea, using established wearable platforms to define the issue and formulate a solution. But persuading users to pay for it is the hard part.
The key in this is partnerships with organisation that see the benefit (in cash terms) of montoring the data as a preventative measure so that they adopt the platform as part of their "offer". I think that is possibly more important that developing a wearable device (and as a hardware product designer that pains me to say that!) given the proliferation in smart wearables.
But those decisions are not easy to make and it is part of the learning process a startup has to make.