Tap Tech For Better Health

Apps, trackers and websites may help you improve your health – and your arthritis.

Using electronic, or “e-health,” tools may help you better manage your arthritis and boost your well-being. You may already be using apps, websites or activity trackers to keep tabs on your diet, physical activity, medication use or symptoms. This can encourage you to keep up healthy behaviors, such as exercising regularly and taking your medications as prescribed, says Rebecca Grainger, PhD, a rheumatologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand who has studied the effects of monitoring apps for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Here’s how you can put e-health to good use.