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Mobile app user guide: Hipbone to sync personal health data
  1. Robert D Furberg,
  2. Alexa M Ortiz
  1. RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Robert D Furberg, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA; rfurberg{at}rti.org

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-096842

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    Name of the mobile application

    Hipbone.

    Category of mobile application

    Health and Fitness.

    Platform

    iOS 8.0 or later. (Updated 15 March 2016: current V.0.2.1; size 19.3 MB. Documented from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipbone/id994965999?mt=8.)

    Cost

    Free.

    About the app

    The Hipbone app is offered by Open mHealth (New York, New York, USA; https://hipboneapp.com/), a non-profit start-up seeking to increase the clinical relevance and usage of self-generated health information.1 Since Apple's release of the iOS 8 operating system in September 2014, iPhone users have been able to collect and curate a variety of their own health data using the native Health application. A signification limitation, however, is that self-generated data, while appreciable in the Health app dashboard, are only stored on the device. Extraction of these data for archiving, conducting analyses or sharing with …

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    Footnotes

    • Twitter Follow Robert Furberg at @medicfurby

    • Funding This work was supported by RTI International's iSHARE programme.

    • Disclaimer The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of RTI International.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.