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Veterans Test Syncing Wearable Health Tracking Devices with Share My Health Data App

  • VA News
  • Nov 09, 2024
A group participating in the 6 Service Challenge event.

Veterans can use VA’s new Share My Health Data app to store data from their health tracking devices all in one place. The app also lets Veterans share the collected data with their VA care teams. Recently, the Office of Connected Care and the Whole Health team at the Cincinnati VA teamed up to test the Share My Health Data app during a 6 Service Challenge event. The results were outstanding:

  • A total of 96 Veterans participated in the 10-week Whole Health challenge.
  • Participants used Fitbits and Share My Health Data to log 36.5 million steps, 16,581 miles, and 13.5 million calories burned.
  • The Cincinnati Whole Health team recorded participants’ anecdotal health benefits, which included one Veteran being taken off four medications, another noting overall enhanced physical well-being, and others reporting improved sleep, reduced blood pressure, and weight loss.

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