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06-05-2017, 05:43 PM
Apple's healthcare ambitions look to take a step forward
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Working with Apple every day, as Apple sees it, could help keep the doctor away—or at least well informed.*
Apple's push into healthcare is readying its second gear, and this week's Worldwide Developers Conference is just the start.*
Apple started its push into healthcare when it introduced the Apple Watch in 2015. The wearable device made fitness, and then health software, and then medical research, more central to Apple's mission.*
Since then, Apple introduced ResearchKit in 2015 and CareKit in 2016. The two open-sourced platforms, both included under Apple's HealthKit category (https://developer.apple.com/healthkit/), let **ntraditional developers without total coding expertise build apps for both medical research and consumer health. Projects so far have included an app from Penn Medicine for the rare disease Sarcoidosis (http://researchkit.org/blog#article-27), an app from researchers at the University of **rth Carolina at Chapel Hill to study postpartum depression (http://www.pactforthecure.com/about/), and even end-to-end encryption tools (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/apple-zerokit-security-carekit/) available to health apps on the platform.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-healthcare-wwdc-apps/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Working with Apple every day, as Apple sees it, could help keep the doctor away—or at least well informed.*
Apple's push into healthcare is readying its second gear, and this week's Worldwide Developers Conference is just the start.*
Apple started its push into healthcare when it introduced the Apple Watch in 2015. The wearable device made fitness, and then health software, and then medical research, more central to Apple's mission.*
Since then, Apple introduced ResearchKit in 2015 and CareKit in 2016. The two open-sourced platforms, both included under Apple's HealthKit category (https://developer.apple.com/healthkit/), let **ntraditional developers without total coding expertise build apps for both medical research and consumer health. Projects so far have included an app from Penn Medicine for the rare disease Sarcoidosis (http://researchkit.org/blog#article-27), an app from researchers at the University of **rth Carolina at Chapel Hill to study postpartum depression (http://www.pactforthecure.com/about/), and even end-to-end encryption tools (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/apple-zerokit-security-carekit/) available to health apps on the platform.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-healthcare-wwdc-apps/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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