Apple’s HealthKit can collect data about many different aspects of users’ health – and, in future, that information could be interpreted to help further improve health, a new report hints.
Many healthcare experts that Apple has recently recruited are now developing better electronic health record software that could improve analysis and understanding of the implications of user data amassed by Apple’s HealthKit framework, sources have apparently told Bloomberg.
These sources, identified only as “people familiar with the team’s plans”, also say that new health-based Apple Watch apps are currently being developed by the Cupertino company. These include one that assists in tracking sleep patterns and another that, through recording the time that the heart rate takes to fall from peak to resting level, assesses fitness levels.
Reportedly, Apple’s medical technology team ultimately intends for HealthKit to enhance diagnoses. Bloomberg says that it could enable data transfer between hospitals and databases, but adds that when the team’s work will actually be enacted in HealthKit remains unclear.