# Charitable Heart-Tracking Apps Heart for Heart Analyzes User Data to Improve Screening Technology By Joey Haar | Published 2017-06-14 | Social Good Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/heart-for-heart References: [producthunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/heart-for-heart) & [heartrateapp](http://www.heartrateapp.com/?ref=producthunt) 'Heart for Heart' is an app making use of the power of crowds to provide people with an effective at-home screening system for the most common heart rhythm disorder. The app is asking anyone — no matter their age, current health, or health history — to participate in a short screening test, and the data collected from these tests will be used to perfect the final at-home screening system that patients will eventually use. Heart for Heart is designed to screen for atrial fibrillation, known more commonly as a-fib. According to Heart for Heart's website, there are as many as three million a-fib patients in the US alone and the condition leads to 250,000 sudden deaths in the US annually, making it the second-leading cause of stroke. Clearly, an initiative like Heart for Heart is an important one. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 1.5/10 - Popularity: 16% | Activity: 20% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America, Europe ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Social Good](https://www.trendhunter.com/socialgood) > [Activism](https://www.trendhunter.com/activism) ## Key Themes ### What's Driving This Trend - **Crowdsourced Screening Technology:** Opportunity for companies to create apps that crowdsource important health data to improve at-home screening systems for common health conditions. - **Personalized Health Monitoring:** Potential for apps to use individual health data to provide users with personalized health monitoring and screening. - **Wearables for Health Tracking:** Opportunity for companies to develop wearable devices that can track and monitor health data for conditions like a-fib. ### Who This Affects Most - **Healthcare:** Healthcare professionals can incorporate crowdsourced data in developing personalized health monitoring and screening programs for their patients. - **Mobile App Development:** Opportunity for mobile app developers to create apps that use individual health data for health monitoring and screening purposes. - **Wearable Technology:** Companies making wearable technology can develop devices that monitor and track health data, urging users to take preventative measures by going to the doctor. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Virtual Heart Rate Monitors](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/heart-listener.md) - [Connective Altruistic Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/heart-2-help.md) - [Cardiac Risk Screening Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/cardiac-risk-screening-app.md) - [AI Heart Health Mirrors](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/faceheart-cardiomirror.md) - [Electrocardiogram Smartwatch Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ecg-app.md) - [Card-Sized ECG Devices](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/kardiamobile-card.md) - [Empathy-Driven Well-Being Checks](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/wellbeing-checks.md) - [Disease-Detecting Medical Wristbands](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/teltonika.md) - [Medical-Focused Nutrition Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/heali.md)