Your Phone Can Tell When You're Down and Alert Your Caregivers

Your smartphone is an incredibly powerful tool—one that we mostly waste by just using to make phone calls and check email. But in addition to that, it’s an advanced bundle of sensors that is with us nearly 24 hours a day, collecting massive amounts of data. Doctors and health professionals are starting to understand the opportunity this data can provide. Take a new app that helps silently identify diabetes patients who might be slipping with their treatments.

Just when I said I hadn't heard much about apps aimed at diabetes, along comes this news about Ginger.io. The app senses a user's mood and alerts a network of caregivers. Seems brilliant and useful. I wonder when it will be adapted to other conditions.