Vitals Tracking: Allows patients to record weight, blood pressure and heart rate in the app, and to track these measurements over time to help better understand health status. This information is only stored on their mobile device; it is not sent to the clinic.
Battery Longevity: Displays the estimated remaining battery life of patients' Medtronic heart devices enabled with BlueSync technology.
Symptom Journal: Allows patients to catalog symptomatic events which can be reviewed with their physicians during in-person clinic visits. This information is only stored on their mobile device; it is not sent to the clinic.
Device Information: Displays device implant date, heart device name, model number and serial number - as well as patients' clinic information.
Education: Offers helpful information and common questions about living with a pacemaker.
Physical Activity: Provides information about patients' activity levels. The app uses data from patients' heart devices to create daily, weekly and monthly views of physical activity.
In addition to building the MyCareLink Heart mobile app to deliver unique benefits for patients and clinicians, Medtronic prioritized high-level security design capabilities. The security controls built into BlueSync technology-enabled heart devices and the MyCareLink Heart mobile app include encryption and access restrictions designed to protect the device and data transmissions.
In collaboration with leading clinicians, researchers and scientists worldwide, Medtronic offers the broadest range of innovative medical technology for the interventional and surgical treatment of cardiovascular disease and cardiac arrhythmias. Medtronic strives to offer products and services of the highest quality that deliver clinical and economic value to healthcare consumers and providers around the world.
About Medtronic
Medtronic plc., headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is among the world's largest medical technology, services and solutions companies - alleviating pain, restoring health and extending life for millions of people around the world. Medtronic employs more than 86,000 people worldwide, serving physicians, hospitals and patients in more than 150 countries. The company is focused on collaborating with stakeholders around the world to take healthcare Further, Together.
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