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This is great! As a sufferer of bowel problems for many years, I developed PoopLog for Android to track my bowel habits using the Bristol Stool Scale [1]. Softw

by kefs 15y ago

This is great! As a sufferer of bowel problems for many years, I developed PoopLog for Android to track my bowel habits using the Bristol Stool Scale [1]. Software like ours really do help everyday people, and the daily emails I receive from my users make everything worth it. Good luck! For the curious, my next update is a rather large one including many more logging options, charts, and trends. [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bristol_Stool... edit.. link to my app: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.kefsco.pooplog2 http://market.android.com/details?id=com.kefsco.pooplog2

chopsueyar 15y ago
Perhaps a social media element with picture sharing?
- jevinskie 15y ago
  It integrates with other social apps on your phone!
CWuestefeld 15y ago
I've had Crohn's since I was 12, and have often contemplated creating a tool to help others track their diet and activity, to look for correlations. I've not done so because I was afraid of either (a) FDA interfering, since it's medical-related; or (b) liability in case there was a bug.
- briggsbio 15y ago
  CW, there's nothing wrong with an app that collects and tracks diet, activity, or other information (until you get into data from instrumentation devices and more complex data inputs). Diet exercise are fine. Symptoms are fine. Even reporting them are fine (analytics). The issue becomes the key word: correlating. The FDA's (currently incompletely addressed) stance is that as long as you don't DO anything with the data, you're golden. "observe and report," so to speak. Once you actually try to interpret (read: do anything interesting with) the data, you hit a regulatory wall. Well, regulatory hurdles, but not inconsequential (21 CFR part 11 compliance, quality systems, documentation well beyond anything the average developer is used to, etc.). Hurdles, but not complete roadblocks. So excite for some of the stuff in the works. Particularly looking forward to massiveHealth, but haven't seen anything since the funding a while back and details were nonexistent. I had some preliminary work on a great product and even a trial designed and ready to roll, and all the regulatory work (my bailiwick) lined out. But didn't get the grants funded. Sadly, I shelved it.
  - kefs 15y ago
    This is correct, and PoopLog doesn't attempt to diagnose or interpret anything through the data. It simply acts as a way to conveniently track your bowel movements with the ability to export to a readable, and sharable, text-file allowing for easy analysis by a health practitioner. I do include links to helpful online resources within my help file though.
jevinskie 15y ago
I just want you to know that PoopLog is one of the finest apps I've encountered on Android. Seriously, it has a great look n feel! You really can polish a turd!
- kefs 15y ago
  Thanks :)
- petenixey 15y ago
  @Trevor - NB that gilded turd may not always be a bad thing..

by kefs 15y ago

chopsueyar 15y ago

Perhaps a social media element with picture sharing?

jevinskie 15y ago
It integrates with other social apps on your phone!

CWuestefeld 15y ago

I've had Crohn's since I was 12, and have often contemplated creating a tool to help others track their diet and activity, to look for correlations. I've not done so because I was afraid of either (a) FDA interfering, since it's medical-related; or (b) liability in case there was a bug.

briggsbio 15y ago
CW, there's nothing wrong with an app that collects and tracks diet, activity, or other information (until you get into data from instrumentation devices and more complex data inputs). Diet exercise are fine. Symptoms are fine. Even reporting them are fine (analytics). The issue becomes the key word: correlating. The FDA's (currently incompletely addressed) stance is that as long as you don't DO anything with the data, you're golden. "observe and report," so to speak. Once you actually try to interpret (read: do anything interesting with) the data, you hit a regulatory wall. Well, regulatory hurdles, but not inconsequential (21 CFR part 11 compliance, quality systems, documentation well beyond anything the average developer is used to, etc.). Hurdles, but not complete roadblocks. So excite for some of the stuff in the works. Particularly looking forward to massiveHealth, but haven't seen anything since the funding a while back and details were nonexistent. I had some preliminary work on a great product and even a trial designed and ready to roll, and all the regulatory work (my bailiwick) lined out. But didn't get the grants funded. Sadly, I shelved it.
- kefs 15y ago
  This is correct, and PoopLog doesn't attempt to diagnose or interpret anything through the data. It simply acts as a way to conveniently track your bowel movements with the ability to export to a readable, and sharable, text-file allowing for easy analysis by a health practitioner. I do include links to helpful online resources within my help file though.

jevinskie 15y ago

I just want you to know that PoopLog is one of the finest apps I've encountered on Android. Seriously, it has a great look n feel! You really can polish a turd!

kefs 15y ago
Thanks :)
petenixey 15y ago
@Trevor - NB that gilded turd may not always be a bad thing..