Your iPhone could soon contain your entire medical history

Oleh
Your iPhone could soon contain your entire medical history

While most tech companies are scrambling to climb the machine learning mountain, Apple has its sights on a different goal. Sure, it did just dip its fingers in the smart home speaker jar, but its interests apparently lie elsewhere.

According to insiders, Apple is looking to turn your iPhone into a one-stop shop for your medical information, with the goal of making it easier for users to share their information with health care personnel without having to go through the hoops and potential errors involved in traditional health care systems.

That Apple is interested in the health industry isn’t exactly that big of a secret, but never has its ambitions been regarded to be this big. Its current HealthKit platform, for example, has mostly been concerned with the basics like activities, calories, weight, and heart rate.

There have also been talks about hardware and software to aid diabetics, supposedly a matter near and dear to the late Steve Jobs. This new report, however, takes that to a whole new level.

Apple is supposedly looking into the possibility of your iPhone being the repository of all your medical data and history, from doctor’s visits to lab results to prescriptions.

As puzzling as that may sound for a tech company, Apple is trying to address a long-standing problem experienced by any patient: that of sharing their data between health providers and services,

It easy to underestimate what the health industry dubs as the “interoperability crisis”. Even health IT companies admit that having easy access to their own medical information across services and providers interests only a small fraction of the population, specifically those with grave conditions.

In a way, this also makes this particular niche market ripe for the picking. Especially for a company like Apple who already has established a few stakes in the industry.

Apple is hardly the first or only company to have tried. Google, whose mission is to collect the world’s data, including your medical information, has tried and mostly given up, at least for now.

Apple, however, has silently and secretly building up an army of specialists and acquisitions towards what seems to be a more encompassing, and more ambitious, health program. Via Source: slashgear

Comments

Post a Comment

Most Popular

Google Drive will soon make it easy to Backup and Sync PCs, Macs

Oleh
Image
Google Drive will soon make it easy to Backup and Sync PCs, Macs The cloud storage wars just got a bit more interesting. Box just recently announced its Box Drive offering to practically replace shared network folders at work. Now Google is also expanding the scope of its own Google Drive cloud solution but with a nod towards regular consumers instead of the enterprise. With the upcoming Backup and Sync tool, users on Windows and macOS will be able to select whole folders to sync with Google Drive, making it easy as pie to store all your data on the mothership. The way Google Drive traditionally works is that you upload files to the cloud. Desktop apps offer the convenience of making it look like Google Drive is part of your local storage but, in reality, it is just smoke and mirrors. You really are still uploading files to Drive, which updates a local copy of the file sitting inside a special folder on your local storage. The new Google Drive attacks the problem from a
Keep reading

(18+) 10 Tempat Mesum Yang Tekenal Di Dunia

Oleh
Image
Banyak sekali negara di dunia ini, yang berarti akan banyak sekali kota-kota di bumi. Setiap kota memiliki cerita tersendiri. Ada yang dianggap sebagai kota tercantik dan kota terburuk. Menjadi kota terburuk pun rupanya didapatkan dengan banyak sekali penilaian. Tapi tahukah kamu dengan ikon kota paling berdosa di dunia? Ya, mungkin kita tak bisa menilai semua manusia di kota itu berdosa. Hanya saja kegiatan yang terjadi di kota tersebut membuat banyak orang berpikir itu adalah dosa yang besar. Berikut ini kota-kotan paling berdosa itu: Berlin - Jerman Berjalan di kota Berlin pada malam hari dan memasuki klub-klub malamnya pasti akan membuatmu terperanjat. Terlebih lagi jika kamu adalah orang yang dibesarkan di kota-kota kecil di Indonesia. Karena di Berlin, kamu bisa melihat orang-orang mempertontonkan banyak sekali adegan seksual secara terang-terangan. Berlin bahkan disebut membebaskan penduduknya untuk melakukan seks bebas. Tak heran jika remaja Berlin sudah sering meli
Keep reading

7 Best And Hidden iPhone And iPad Apps On Sale For Free Right Now

Oleh
Image
The trending hot news in the tech world today is obviously Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, but we don’t want Apple fans to feel like we’ve forgotten about them. In this post, you’ll find 7 nifty paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for a limited time. If that’s not enough, you’ll also find a few good freebies in yesterday’s post, but only if you hurry. Warning: "These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now - obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “get,” it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged." Sonic Dash "A perfect blend of Temple Run-style gaming and the lightspeed nature
Keep reading