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Table of Contents<\/p>
- Apple health and the origins of Apple Watch\u00a0<\/a><\/li>
- What is Apple\u2019 HealthKit?<\/a><\/li>
- What is ResearchKit?<\/a><\/li>
- What is Apple\u2019s CareKit?<\/a><\/li>
- What about your health? Five Apple\u2019s health apps to take care of it\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n
Apple health and the origins of Apple Watch\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n
John Hancock\u2019s proposal<\/a> was arrived at the end of a long process supported by Apple to improve its wearable devices as health assistants for its customers. At the beginning of the story we have an idea a small idea but great if we figure out the consequences on technology and healthcare.<\/p>\n
Many years ago Steve Jobs imagined, as John Birjan wrote in his article on Time, a technology able to guarantee a bridge between patients and healthcare providers<\/a>, a wearable technology easy to monitor the functions of the human body and collect data in an organic and well organized system.<\/p>\n
In Cupertino laboratories there are today seven full-time nurses who check employee volunteers with advanced medical equipment as they perform various exercises in controlled conditions. Apple is carrying on its programs about human health and medical technology integrated with wearable devices such as Apple Watch 3. HealthKit debuted in 2014, allowing developers to create new health monitoring softwares that integrates with Apple’s Health app. On the other hand Apple\u2019s open source ResearchKit became available to developers in April 2015, enabling them to create their Apple\u2019s health apps for medical research purposes.<\/p>\n
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<\/h2>\nWhat is Apple\u2019 HealthKit?<\/span><\/h2>\n
HealthKit is a framework <\/a>that allows people to check health data about themselves and interact with all their smart devices. It is a digital wearable hub to monitor your heart rate, for example, in order to improve your health through the right physical exercises and workouts. HealthKit allows also manufacturers of health devices and health apps, to access and share health data about you with each other and with Apple\u2019s new Health app.<\/p>\n
What is ResearchKit?<\/span><\/h2>\n
- What is Apple\u2019 HealthKit?<\/a><\/li>