| | 2+ years of HealthKit / ResearchKit / CareKit updates
The Los Angeles Times | FTC in talks with Apple about health data protection (14 Nov 2014)
VentureBeat | Stanford launches its HealthKit- and Epic-connected MyHealth app (11 Feb 2015)
CNBC | Apple's ResearchKit: Gamechanger for digital health care? (10 Mar 2015)
Wired | Apple Finally Adds Reproductive Health to HealthKit (8 Jun 2015)
Wired | Finally, You’ll Be Able to Track Your Period in iOS (9 Sep 2015)
“Apple presents Healthkit as a comprehensive tracking system for human health. But back when it launched, the company seemed to have forgotten about the humans who have periods. In June, Apple tried to right this oversight by announcing that Healthkit would also track ‘reproductive health.’
“Still, details for what exactly that meant were scant. Now, the iOS 9 update to one women’s health app offers some, um, clues. The makers of the app, called Clue, said today that it will integrate its period-tracking and fertility features with iOS 9 and HealthKit, complete with push notifications.”
Mashable | How Apple wants to empower iPhone users to track medical conditions with CareKit (22 Mar 2016)
Healthcare IT News | Apple to add support for HL7 Continuity of Care Documents to iOS 10, HealthKit champion Ricky Bloomfield says (14 Jun 2016)
“The move would empower patients to control their own data, according to Ricky Bloomfield, MD, of Duke Health, and help eradicate the tradition of paternalism in medicine.”
Bloomberg | Apple Said to Expand HealthKit From Tracker to Diagnosis Tool (26 Sep 2016)
Tech Times | Apple Has Big Plans For HealthKit And Your Health: New Fitness Apps For Apple Watch, Improved Health Recording (27 Sep 2016)
Mashable | Thanks to Apple, there’s an app for that in hospitals (30 Sep 2016)
MobiHealthNews | Apple hires Duke's Dr. Ricky Bloomfield, a HealthKit and ResearchKit pioneer (31 Oct 2016)
appleinsider | Apple patent refines health monitoring headphone invention to accommodate AirPods (14 Nov 2016)
MobiHealthNews | Could Apple's upcoming regulated cardiac device be headphone-based? (17 Jan 2017)
While this last link is somewhat speculative, it, and the previous link, echo the progression of potential news I laid out here more than two years ago on this very subject:
1. A rumor is reported
2. The rumor is denounced by someone in a position to know (in this case, the "original reporter") as a "hoax"
3. The rumor actually makes sense
4. Hey, somebody actually built something just like what was rumored
5. Yeah, Apple just patented something like that |
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