MedM Blog publications in 2024

Welcome! This is where we communicate informally about our work and software, answer questions, and explain how MedM products are designed to help people. We also discuss how health monitoring can help prevent and manage disease, talk about connected health and its new technologies and developments. And most importantly, we aim to connect with our users, assisting them on the journey to better health, wellness, and improved quality of life. Please feel free to ask us a question or suggest a topic to address: support@medm.com or pr@medm.com.

July 11, 2024

Body Temperature Monitoring: Tools, Tips, and Reasons for Doing It

Maintaining an optimal body temperature is essential to life. Deviation from the normal body temperature range is an important indicator of potential trouble: infection, inflammation, heat stroke, drug reaction, tumor growth or another altered physiological state. Body temperature is one of the seven universally accepted vital signs, along with pulse & respiration rates, blood pressure, body weight, and blood glucose.

What is Health Connect and How is it Different from Google Fit?

Both are Google products, but by 2025, Health Connect is to completely replace Google Fit as the tool for sharing of user data between Android apps. The timeline of change, the main differences between the two products, the list of supported data types, and data migration instructions are outlined in our post below.

Are Body Composition Scales Accurate? What is BMI, BIA, and How to Use a Smart Scale Correctly?

BMI or the body mass index is simply a ratio of weight to height squared. BMI - not to be confused with BMR or basal metabolic rate (the number of calories a body needs to maintain life at rest) - was invented about 200 years ago by a Belgian-born sociologist, astronomer, and mathematician Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, who was looking for a tool to study populations, not individuals.