Easily Track Biometrics with BodySite’s Body Tracker

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The best biometric tracker is available on the web and in BodySite’s mobile app! 

How Does BodySite’s Body Tracker Work? 

The biometric tracker that you and your patients have been needing for better patient compliance is available to you right inside your own BodySite provider account and app. BodySite’s body tracker has 23 biometrics that can be tracked, but you can create your own tasks instructing your patients to track a biometric that’s not already included, such as if your patient needs to track their sleep patterns while on the 30 Days of Sleep Hygiene Plan. 

Your patients also have the ability to sync their BodySite accounts with a handful of connected health devices that will allow for seamless updates of patient metrics. Devices they can sync with their BodySite account include Fitbit, Innotech Scale, Apple Health, Oura Ring, and more. Using connected health devices can give your patients a way to automatically sync the data collected from the devices into their BodySite account. While this can be a great help, BodySite’s body tracker is just as easy to use manually. 

Tracking biometrics with BodySite further enhances compliance, patient engagement, and guidance. There are many great features throughout the body tracking function, but here’s a quick overview of the most important features that your patients can take advantage of. 

BodySite’s Body Tracker Allows Easy Biometric Tracking Straight from the Daily Tasks

For care programs with tasks that require your patients to track certain biometrics, they can easily track those biometrics from the daily tasks screen. Checking the task as complete will open a pop-up that prompts your patients to enter their data.  

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Say they’re needing to track their weight. Once they check the “Track weight” task complete, the pop-up will appear where they can easily enter their weight for that day.  

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Patients Can Set Biometric Goals

Not everyone wants to set biometric goals and keep track of them everyday, but it should be simple for those who want to. Using BodySite’s biometric tracker, your patients can set their own personal goals for the biometrics they want to keep track of. For each biometric, the tracker gives the measurement that should be used. Your patients just have to enter a value and their goal will be set. 

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Patients Track Biometrics in a Daily Tracking Interface for Easy Biometric Logging to Match the BodySite App

Your patients can easily log biometrics with the “Enter new Log” function. Whether they’re tracking weight, blood pressure, body temperature, etc., the tracker automatically gives the measurement that should be used when logging that metric. All your patients have to do is select the biometric they want to track, enter a value, and enter a date. Once they click save, that value will be logged and shown underneath “Logs”.  

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Once at least 2 logs are entered, a graph will appear for dates that your patient chooses for them to compare their logged values each day and look at the progress they’re making. The graph will also show the goals that your patients have set, if they chose to set a goal. 

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Providers Can Create Custom Tasks for Tracking Other Biometrics 

While BodySite’s biometric tracker has 23 biometrics that can be tracked, there may be circumstances where you need a patient to track something else that’s not already included. If this is the case, you have the ability to easily create a new task for them to track a biometric. While your patients won’t be able to manually track it through completing the task, you can prompt them to track it by writing the biometric in their journal or just tracking it themselves for their own personal use. 

All you would have to do is go to your libraries and select tasks. From there, you would go to +Create New Task and select “Create a custom action”. You will then be able to type whatever you need for them to track, such as “Track sleep”.

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BodySite’s biometric tracker is also very simple to use on the app. Patients can easily take advantage of these same features even when they’re on the go. The video below demonstrates just how easy it is for your patients. 

Why Should You Encourage Patients to Track Biometrics? 

Encouraging your patients to track their biometrics can be beneficial for them and may help in achieving their health and lifestyle goals. Millions of people around the world reportedly track their body metrics regularly, and biometric tracking has even been defined as the philosophy of ‘self-knowledge through numbers’.

One of the main benefits biometric tracking can provide is the ability for your patients to measure their progress overtime. If your patients aren’t logging their body metrics daily, they’ll have no accurate way of knowing if they’re making any progress towards their goals or not. By regularly tracking their biometrics, they’ll be able to look at their progress over the past couple of days, weeks, months, or even years. 

Tracking biometrics can also allow your patients to tell whether or not their current routine is effective. If their tracked biometrics haven’t gotten any closer to their goals over a prolonged amount of time, that should tell them their current routine isn’t properly working for them. Once they’ve figured that out, they can adjust their health habits and routine as needed. 

How Can Biometric Tracking Assist Providers?

If your patients are regularly tracking their biometrics, they’re not the only ones benefitting from it. Monitoring their biometrics can help you to better guide their care. Whether they’re tracking their biometrics for you to monitor their progress while they’re on a care plan or tracking it throughout their daily lifestyle in order for you to get a better idea of their needs, body tracking will help you gain a great understanding of how to take better care of each individual patient.

Being able to access your patient’s biometric tracking data will allow you to provide better diagnoses and the opportunity to personalize their treatment as much as possible. Fortunately, biometric tracking with BodySite allows you to easily follow along with the biometric data of your patients. Once you’ve come to a better understanding of their needs and an idea of a care plan that would work for them, we have 60+ remote care programs to choose from that are all customizable using our content management system, if you choose to modify the program. 

Say you’ve been watching a patient’s progress over three months and have realized they’ve been having a hard time reaching their weight goal of around 160 pounds. You could assign them to the Clean 28 Healthy Weight Loss Program in order to help them reach that goal while using healthy habits to lose weight. 

If you’re looking for a HIPAA-compliant telehealth solution that allows your patients a simple way of body tracking and lets you easily watch the biometrics of your patients, check out BodySite.com. If you’re not already using BodySite, click here to claim your 30-day free trial.

 

SOURCES:

1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0539018420959522 

2. https://bodysite.com/wellness-plans-for-lifestyle-guidance-and-patient-care/