Mango Health App Eyes Partnership with Apple Watch

Apple’s soon-to-be-released tech wearable is being eyed by Mango Health as its newest partner in helping people better manage their health. If things push through, the Apple watch will feature health and wellness notifications from the app, according to Techcrunch.

Mango Health, headquartered in San Francisco, California, first created an app to help patients adhere strictly to their medication schedules in 2012. It is designed to make drug adherence fun and easy, inspiring users to improve their health with the help of mobile technology.

In conjunction with the launch, the company run a clinical trial in partnership with undisclosed hospital systems in America. It has been successful. Over all, the Mango Health app enjoyed a 34% return rate. That means, 34% of the app users who signed up keep returning after a year. The incidence of app opening is also high. It has been noted that 17.1 sessions per week is the average, meaning the app’s customer base opens it at least twice daily.

With such good success rates, Mango Health’s founding chair Jason Oberfest is looking to an expansion. Aside from an app upgrade, he is also keen on bringing the Mango Health app to the Apple watch. Industry watchers impress on this as a sensible decision. Getting notifications to take medicines at specific times each day on a tech wearable seems to make perfect sense. With the Mango Health app adding features like hydration and physical activity tracking as well as blood pressure and blood sugar levels monitoring, users will also enjoy improved gauges for overall health and wellness.

The Apple watch, meanwhile, is a groundbreaking tech development that seeks to make relevant technology even more accessible and personal. In a recent Apple event, it has been disclosed that the tech wearable features a life clock that counts down the amount of time the wearer has left on Earth, adding minutes for a nourishing activity and subtracting them for bad health habits.

Both Mango Health and Apple seemed intent on providing users with better impressions on how to live a fuller life. If the two will go hand in hand to reach the same objectives remains to be seen.