“Forgive me if I dispense with all the wild fish tales of refrigerators that know they’re about to run out of milk and eggs and order their own food, sensor-laden ingestible nanobots that can diagnose and cure what ails you, and prescient cities that know when disaster is about to strike,” Steve Tobak reports for FOXBusiness. “Yes, that is all plausible – eventually – but for once I thought I’d keep it real and tell you what goodies the Internet of Things [IoT] might bring before you’re too old for it to matter.”
“Considering how full of technology our home and work lives have become, modern health care is still in the dark ages. While there are thousands of third-party applications, electronic devices, and large-scale software systems, none of them talk to each other. It’s a fragmented mess that’s long overdue for integration and de facto standardization,” Tobak reports. “Enter Apple. The tech giant is readying the launch of HealthKit, a personal health information system that will use sensors in Apple’s iWatch and other devices to monitor blood pressure, pulse, weight and other data and upload it to the cloud. Apple is reportedly working with a host of health-care providers and software makers to integrate HealthKit with their systems and apps.”
“While Apple’s recently announced enterprise pact with IBM does face significant challenges, there is enormous potential to put big data analytics into the hands of workers and decision-makers across a wide range of markets and industries such as retail, insurance, banking, and airlines,” Tobak reports. “Given the size of this joint effort by two technology giants, I think it’s safe to say that many of you will have a lot more data to make smart decisions at your fingertips in the not-too-distant future.”
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I hope so; going to the hospital is more dangerous, statistically, than driving drunk.
Ok, so you choose keep on driving…..drunk? /s
What about driving drunk to the hospital?
I sure cannot wait for Google to start selling my vital statistics to drug companies. But really, what is the total number of hypochondriacs to buy into this stuff. I do not see it as a money maker for Apple….let Google own it.
The biggest question is security. For the IoT to be usable, reliable, and not downright dangerous, security must be baked in from the beginning, not an add-on as in Windows. Imaging the problems that a Windows-based IoT would engender!
>Imaging the problems that a Windows-based IoT would engender!<
More like transgender. You'd wake up in the hospital from a simple procedure and find out that—thanks to scrambled records—the surgeon cut off something important.
…and everything is important.
EXACTLY Jim. The Internet of Things has already been implicated in large botnets being used for DDOS attacks, spamming, etc. The manufacturers have been dumping the stuff on the market with very little or NO security built in. Put your fridge on the Internet, bot wranglers PWN it and it’s just another instrument for crime. Really stupid and unnecessary.
the biggest question is, “Why would you want any of this?”
All you libertarians are supposed to be at odds with the collection of personal data.
This all changes because it’s Apple?
Puh–leeze!