Apple HealthKit

Apple HealthKit is a medical platform announced in 2014 for monitoring user health. HealthKit is an API that collects data (for example, the number of steps passed or calories burned) from various applications. A user of an application created using HealthKit can set up to automatically send physical data to their doctor

2021: Integration with Ornament Preventive Medicine Application

On December 2, 2021, the company Ornament Health AG announced that in the updated version of applications preventive medicine Ornament , it became possible to integrate Apple with the Health application. Now users "iPhones" will be able to receive more accurate recommendations not only based on their laboratory analyses, but also their symbiosis with lifestyle, physical activity, sleep quality, nutrition and other useful ones. data More. here

2017: Apple will turn iPhone into a medical card

In mid-June 2017, it became known about Apple's plans to create a system for storing all user medical data. The company is negotiating with various health care stakeholders.

According to CNBC, Apple wants all patient data (visits to the doctor, laboratory results, indicators read from fitness trackers, etc.) to be stored in a smartphone with the ability to quickly provide this information to the treating doctor or medical services.

Apple creates a system that will store complete patient health data

Bud Tribble, vice president of software technology at Apple (formerly a physiotherapist), has been appointed project manager. His team is negotiating with private clinics and research centers. In addition, Apple hired a group of medical technology developers who already have experience with storage and transfer systems of this kind.

Informed CNBC sources say the corporation is also ready to buy cloud startups that can fit into Apple's work in healthcare.

If Apple is serious about this, a big deal awaits us, "said Farzad Mostashari, former national coordinator of the medical IT Department of Health and Human Services. Subsequently, Mostashari founded his own medtech startup called Aledade.

If Apple implements the planned project, the company will solve a big problem that the medical community has been facing for many years. Even in the digital age, patients often do not want their data to be transmitted to doctors, especially those working in different hospitals. Such information is usually transmitted only in PDF files in attachments to emails or by fax. Those who use the so-called "patient portals" often complain about the limited functionality and availability of information.^[1]

2016: Adding Diagnostic Features

In September 2016, it became known about Apple's plans to turn HealthKit into a full-fledged diagnostic tool capable of interpreting human health data and offering medical advice, Bloomberg news agency reports.

Apple is working to make a HealthKit assistant for users and doctors who will be able to transfer patient health data from one hospital to another, and will also contribute to faster information needed to make a diagnosis by analyzing large amounts of data.

Apple turns HealthKit platform into a medical diagnostic tool

For these purposes, Apple for several years hired many specialists in the field of medical technology. In addition, the startup Gliimpse, specializing in the collection and storage of medical data, was acquired.

It is noted that turning HealthKit into a diagnostic tool will provide Apple with additional revenue: since the company wants all information about the health of users of its products to be stored in the same system, it will be harder for Apple customers to refuse iPhone or iPad in favor of devices on competing platforms.

Apple is going to expand the functionality of HealthKit through new applications. In particular, it is known about the development of programs for the Apple Watch smart watches that can track sleep phases and conduct complex calculations based on heart rate.^[2]

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