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Empirical Health for Watch 17+
POTS, heart, ecg, & vo2 max
Empirical Health, Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Be proactive about your health. Monitor POTS, heart health, vo2 max, and sleep--with real medical care from real doctors, covered by health insurance.
Empirical is compatible with all Apple Watch sensors: heart rate, ECG/EKG, HRV, blood oxygen saturation, activity, deep sleep, REM sleep, sleep stages, afib history, vo2 max (cardio fitness), heart rate recovery (cardio recovery), temperature, and more. Track improvements to your POTS symptoms. Compatible with external blood pressure cuffs.
== Testing & treatment for POTS, Dysautonomia, and Long Covid ==
Get tested for POTS from a real doctor. Begin a comprehensive treatment program, including medication, salt, water, and recumbent exercise using an adapted version of the CHOP / Levine protocol..
== Hearth Health & Heart Rate Monitor ==
Comprehensively evaluate your heart health, including irregular rhythm notifications, ECG (electro cardiogram) interpretation, heart rate monitoring, vo2max, and blood pressure management.
== Sleep hygiene ==
Improve your REM and deep sleep. Evaluate your risk of sleep apnea, and get testing if medically necessary.
We're licensed and insured to provide real diagnosis & treatment--including ordering labs, imaging, and prescriptions if medically necessary--in many US states.
Here are the major features of Empirical Health.
== Today ==
Today summarizes all of your health data into one place: heart rate monitoring, EKG and irregular heart rhythm notifications, steps and activity, oxygen saturation, resting heart rate, heart rate recovery, and more. Track POTS symptoms, medications, exercise, and daily habits like salt or water.
== Chat with a real doctor ==
Talk with a real medical doctor, over chat or video. While anybody can use the Empirical Health app, doctor chat is currently available in many US states. We accept most major insurance.
== Goals ==
Achieve your health goals with structured programs for POTS testing & treatment, exercise, proactive heart health, sleep, and more. Get interpretation of medical cardiograms. Get testing for sleep apnea and other conditions. Get help treating POTS, dysautonomia, and long covid.
== About Empirical Health ==
Empirical Health's mission is to shift healthcare from reactive to preventive. We're founded by a doctor and an engineer who previously worked at UC San Francisco, Google, Kaiser, Cardiogram, and more.
== Compatible apps ==
We're compatible with Apple Watch, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Ultra, and can also import and analyze data from third party sleep, health, and fitness apps such as Autosleep, Athlytic, SleepWatch, Tachymon, Welltory, Sleep++, and other heart rate & HRV monitors.
What’s New
Version 2.0.4
Empirical 2.0.4 fixes bugs. Empirical 2.0 completely redesigns the app and introduces care plans to let you test and manage POTS, improve VO2 max, and improve your deep sleep, manage blood pressure, and more.
Ratings and Reviews
Finally an health app that’s actionable!
Love that this app uses my watch app data with an actual doctor to help me better understand and manage my conditions!
Please, don’t use an app to diagnose POTS…
It’s great that POTS is getting more awareness. However, POTS is more than an effect of long-Covid. It’s been glamorized since Covid because of the uptick in patients who present with it. Apps like these tend to offer “quick diagnoses and fixes” but in reality, if you do suspect you have POTS, it is better to go to an actual doctor (preferably cardiologist or neurologist) who specializes in autonomic testing. There are several other types of dysautonomia that have similar symptoms and these conditions are managed differently. These are physical tests, you can’t self-diagnose. It’s not a diagnosis you particularly want, either, if that’s not actually the condition you have. POTS patients are continuously gaslit and we have a systemic problem with getting doctors to believe our symptoms. Without the autonomic testing to back up your diagnosis, it will be much, much harder to find the right treatment that works best for you. There are also different subcategories of POTS. Some have low blood pressure, some have high. If you recommend “increase salt” to those with high blood pressure, it’s not safe without regular check-ins with your doctor to monitor your overall health in conjunction with any treatments you’re doing at home. Stay safe 👌🏻
Developer Response ,
Hi Mrs Jackson! In our programs to get tested for POTS, you always receive
medical care from a real board-certified doctor. These programs also include physical tests: orthostatic vitals, ECG, and blood tests. Some of these can be performed at home with the aid of an Apple Watch or other smart devices, and some are performed at a local lab.
To address your specific concern about blood pressure, our at-home sit-stand procedure includes measuring blood pressure using a wireless cuff. This guides both the diagnosis and treatment decisions, such as what medication to prescribe. As for autonomic testing, our Chief Medical Officer wrote a more detailed guide on when people need to do a tilt-table test: https://data.empirical.health/p/do-i-need-a-tilt-table-test-to-confirm
Obviously, we believe medical care has to be rigorous and trustworthy. And we hear from many patients who are frustrated that they've been gaslit by the medical system--that's why we built this app, so that patients can get empathetic medical care and live their best lives.
Let me know if that answer makes sense! Feel free to email us: [email protected].
Just use the Health app
Doesn’t really provide any additional information from the Apple Health app. I got suckered into the free trial and forgot to cancel. Now I’ve paid for an app that repackages information Apple already presents in a very consumable way. Additionally, some of the information presented is just wrong - I.e. presenting a low resting heart rate as something you should be concerned about when they have the data to see that your active and the low heart rate is a result of your fitness. Don’t make my mistake…
Developer Response ,
Hi! Just a few things Empirical does that the Health app does not:
- Testing & treatment for POTS, proactive heart health, hypertension, and sleep apnea (in areas where we offer doctor appointments--currently most of the US).
- Correlations - explore correlations between your metrics.
- Customized workouts to improve VO2Max or recover from long covid.
- Interpretations of what's normal and tools to help you uncover causes (e.g., sleep hygiene and sleep apnea risk analysis).
Obviously, there's more we have planned for the future--I'd love to hear your feedback on what more you were hoping to see. Feel free to email us at [email protected].
As for low resting heart rate, while it's true that athletes can have a low heart rate and be healthy, even in athletes, bradyarrhythmias are possible. That's why we highlight it as something to at least check with either your doctor (or an Empirical Health doctor) -- better to be safe than sorry.
If you'd like to cancel your subscription, feel free to email us at [email protected] and we'll get you sorted out.
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The developer, Empirical Health, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Usage Data
- Sensitive Info
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Empirical Health, Inc.
- Size
- 41.6 MB
- Category
- Medical
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Frequent/Intense Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © 2024 Empirical Health, PBC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Empirical Pro $9.00
- Empirical Pro $56.00
- Empirical Pro $5.99
- Empirical Pro $54.00
- Empirical Pro $84.00
- Empirical Pro $25.00
- Empirical Pro $124.99
- Empirical Pro $194.99
- Empirical Pro $49.00
- Empirical Subscription $84.00