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Sharecare Launches AskMD for AndroidSharecare, a comprehensive online health and wellness engagement platform founded by Dr. Mehmet Oz and Jeff Arnold, announced today at the 2014 mHealth Summit that its award-winning app AskMD is now available for download on Android devices. Designed to help you collect information about your symptoms, learn more about common causes, and connect you to the doctors and specialists qualified to treat them, this free app helps you get organized around your health, enabling you to have a more productive doctor's visit and ultimately get better. "By launching on Android (News - Alert), AskMD is now available on nearly 95 percent of the smartphones in the United States, which gets us even closer to realizing our vision to transform the health care system to one focused on patient-centered, preventative and comprehensive care for every individual in this country," said Arnold, Sharecare's Chairman & CEO. "As we continue to engage more deeply with our users, and empower them to take control of their health and wellness, AskMD makes it incredibly easy for Android users to better understand their real-time health status anytime, anywhere." AskMD uses clinically-proven research to help you get from wondering what could be wrong to what you can do about it. By guiding you through a personalized questionnaire that takes into account all your symptoms and other factors, like medications and known conditions, and matching your answers against the latest clinical research, AskMD provides you with results that actually are relevant to you. "Before a patient even walks into the exam room, AskMD collects and organizes the information doctors need to help our patients get better, making those few minutes that we have together more efficient and ultimately more effective," said Dr. Oz. "From my patients to the viewers of The Dr. Oz Show, AskMD is a great tool to help people live their healthiest lives. And with cold and flu season upon us, there's no better time to download AskMD and help you and your family members get better care." Beyond helping you find out what's bothering you at the moment, AskMD has tools and information to help you understand more about your health day-to-day. From notes for a doctor's appointment to locating a doctor covered by your insurance, from a list of all the prescriptions your mom is taking to a list of the doctors and specialists for your entire family, and animations showing the impact your blood pressure and cholesterol are having on your body, AskMD takes the guesswork out of getting better and being well. AskMD for Android can help you:
About Sharecare Sharecare is a health and wellness engagement platform that provides people with personalized resources to help them live their healthiest lives. Nearly 40 million people have shared more than 5 billion data points about their health status and habits with Sharecare, which uses that information to create a comprehensive health profile allowing users to access all of their health resources in one place, and dynamically connect to the knowledge, evidence-based programs and health professionals they need. Created by Jeff Arnold and Dr. Mehmet Oz in 2010, Sharecare's predictive and personalized platform is accessed daily by millions of consumers, including viewers of The Dr. Oz Show, patient populations of the country's leading hospital systems and every Soldier in the United States Army. Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Connect with us on LinkedIn Download AskMD
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