Summary

There are so many sleep trackers and apps now. How do we know if they’re really accurate and which are best?

Founded by affiliates of Harvard University, Wellocracy is a website that answers these questions and more.

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Website:  wellocracy.com/

Wellocracy’s mission is to inspire and empower individuals to self-manage their health and wellness with up-to-date information, expert guidance and innovative ideas to get the most out of personal health technologies.

Wellocracy is the leading source of impartial, easy-to-understand information on new personal “self-health” technologies like activity trackers, wireless devices and mobile apps to empower people to get and stay healthy. Wellocracy goes well beyond simply describing the latest high tech health tracking gizmos and gadgets:

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Insomnia App Sleepio Wins startup Competition at WIRED Health Published May 6, 2014 | Wired UK

After using a book by sleep expert Colin Espie to successfully treat himself for insomnia, Sleepio cofounder Peter Hames convinced the author to help him create a self-administered CBT app. They then carried out the first ever placebo-controlled randomised trial of such a treatment, which found users falling asleep 50 per cent faster within weeks.

More about Sleepio

Learn more about Sleepio directly on their site.  Meet the experts behind the app and take a look at their useful library.

Reference

Espie CA; Kyle SD; Williams C; Ong JC; Douglas NJ; Hames P; Brown JSL. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of online cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic insomnia disorder delivered via an automated media-rich web ...