Easier for them. Better data for you. Get a fuller picture of clients’ health and stay in sync. Integrating wearables with Practice Better Journals unlocks automatic journaling and better health outcomes.
Smart practitioners like you know that journaling is a powerful tool for promoting mental, emotional, and physical well-being. We see better outcomes when people engage with their health. Data shows journaling improves results. In this 2022 NIH study journaling alone improved mental health outcomes by 5%.
Incorporating journaling into your care model can be good for business too! Practitioners who use Practice Better Journals report increased revenue compared to those who do not use the tool.
But, journals are only as good as the information they contain. To be effective, they have to be convenient to use, share meaningful information, and be rewarding enough that clients will engage and keep them current.
How did your clients sleep last night? Did they move enough yesterday? Is their heart rate variability improving? Can they see their well-being improve?
Imagine how much more you could help your clients with consistent, reliable, secure, HIPAA-compliant access to this data. If they didn’t have to remember to send or manually upload the data, and you didn’t have to juggle various formats and platforms to analyze it.
Clients need simple, seamless ways to journal. Enter automatic journaling powered by integrating wearables into Practice Better Journals. We’re excited to add Garmin and Oura to our automatic journaling lineup alongside Apple Health and Fitbit.
Integrating wearables into Practice Better Journals means less work and more value for both you and your clients. These integrations make it super easy for clients to automatically log and share data with you.
Manual entries, spreadsheets, attachments, and gaps in the data paint an incomplete picture of what’s really happening for your client. Inputs can be missing — or even wrong altogether — making it harder to guide them to breakthroughs.
Even when clients track their health, information is literally all over the place, leaving you to wrestle with Excel, OneNote, Google Notes, MyFitnessPal, or other platforms.
That’s because automatic — dare we say automagic — journaling unlocks results. Now your clients can sync Garmin and Oura data seamlessly and automatically into their Practice Better Journals to record sleep patterns, activity levels, heart rate, and more.
These wearable integrations build upon Practice Better's existing journaling capabilities, which include food and mood tracking, lifestyle habits, and integration with other health apps like Apple Health and Fitbit.
Automatic journaling unlocks better care and better results with less hassle for everyone.
“There’s peace of mind to have that complete information. And it makes it more exciting for the client because they can see it on their side too. Like, oh, I felt like I didn't sleep too great last night. But then, when they look in their journal, they can start to see, oh, maybe I shouldn't have eaten grapes at seven o'clock last night because I really only had two hours of REM sleep.
So for me, it helps me do my job to empower the client to be able to learn their body and the effect foods have. Wearables help with that and connecting the dots provides excitement. Clients like to see things in front of them. Everybody wants instant gratification and to be able to look and see, yeah, you can see it on your watch, but now it's attached to a journal that your practitioner can see too. It also helps with accountability.”
Ashlee Roundy, CFNC, FNLP
When you stay in sync with automatic journaling, your clients’ journals unlock four keys to well-being:
Clients' Apple Health, Fitbit, Garmin, or Oura data — including sleep patterns, activity levels, heart rate and more - automatically populate their Practice Better journal through our powerful integration.
Practitioners gain access to a holistic view of their client's health by combining nutrition, mood, and lifestyle data with metrics from wearables.
The ease of automatic data syncing encourages more consistent journals, leading to better adherence to health plans.
With access to more comprehensive data, practitioners can make more informed decisions about their clients' care plans. When you and your clients get and stay in sync, your work is more effective, their health is better, and the whole effort is simpler for all involved.
Get in sync with your clients with Automatic Journaling with Apple, Fitbit, Garmin, and Oura wearables. Sign up for a 14-day free trial today.
