“Apple took the wraps off the iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro at its ‘Loop Me In” event on March 21, but the company’s most revelatory launch of the spring isn’t new hardware. It’s the open-source framework CareKit, which is poised to transform the future of health care,” Caitlin McGarry writes for Macworld.
“If you’re anything like me, you go to the doctor for a check-up once a year. In the 364 days between visits, any number of things happen that we forget about—nothing medically major, but changes in exercise routine, diet, and stress levels that can be significant when taken as a whole. Maybe they just don’t seem important enough to mention to a doctor,” McGarry writes. “But with the help of health-tracking iOS apps, we have all of that data at our fingertips. CareKit takes that information and makes it actionable, and, perhaps more importantly, shareable with your doctor.”
“Phones don’t judge us. We enter embarrassing symptoms into an app that we might gloss over in a routine doctor’s appointment,” McGarry writes. “With CareKit integration, the apps you trust with that private information will enable you to more easily track those symptoms, follow a self-care checklist, and if something is really problematic, help you involve a doctor. CareKit is empowering.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: The import of Apple’s CareKit, along with HealthKit and ResearchKit, cannot be overstated.
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The MacWorld URL:
http://www.macworld.com/article/3048250/ios/our-bodies-ourselves-how-carekit-apps-will-revolutionize-health-care.html
Eventually, almost all of us become limited by our aging disabilities, sometimes caused chronic illnesses.
Indeed the more early tracking and testing for broad issues to detect trends early, the better, for being able to counter what are often early adverse changes.
That testing & tracking is the single least costly and most cost saving thing a person can do to limit medical issues, treatment, medical costs and time off work which giving a longer healthy life.
The -import- of Apple’s CareKit, huh?
I have an idea for a couple of revolutionary apps. How about an email program that is easy to use and makes sense and a internet browser that doesn’t have to reload or crash all the time ?