Rumours have been confirmed.
Apple announced at the World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) its foray on a
health platform called HealthKit. It will be integrated with the upcoming
update of the Cupertino company's firmware to iOS 8. HealthKit will be
associated with a new application, simply named as Health.
HealthKit
HealthKit is primarily a framework for developers. This platform will collect all health and
fitness related data from your apps and will present them to you in a single
place via the built-in Health app. The new venture will encourage building applications
that can integrate their functionality with the potentials of HealthKit. Existing
third party apps like Nike+ which tracks multiple activities is also expected
to use this service.
Health
app
Health will serve as a hub that enables third-party
apps to automatically sync and store data to this app. It also conveniently presents them to you in an intuitive manner. The Health app will serve as a "to-go" place for your health statistics such as weight, calories
burned, blood pressure and more. There will also be accompanying tracking devices
that will feed data to Health.
Shared-information
service
This technology will lead to improved
health monitoring. Apple will partner with Mayo Clinic to enable a shared information
service between a patient and a doctor. That means that your doctor could send your records through this app.
Likewise, the company will also join forces with
the leaders in healthcare apps to allow a dossier-style integration of health
information with major hospitals. This will help users conveniently share
information with their doctors and in turn, help doctors on medical care of
their patients.
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