The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 50 newly granted patents for Apple…
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Apple’s health and fitness push picks up steam as it turns 3
In what was one of the most packed WWDC keynotes in recent memory…
Back to the iPhone future: Lessons from a decade of Apple influence in medicine
In early 2008 — on the brink of the second generation iPhone’s release — emergency medicine doctor Michael Omori…
Key Stanford researcher joins Apple’s digital healthcare talent pool
Apple Inc. is hiring Stanford’s digital health leader, Dr. Sumbul Desai…
Apple working with start-up on iPhone Electronic Health Records plan
The doctor was frustrated with the process of transferring patients’ diagnostic test results in their practice…
Apple’s profound iPhone plans for healthcare
A report today once again confirms Apple is interested in making your iPhone the center..
Apple hires Dr. Sumbul Desai, star of Stanford’s digital health efforts
Apple has quietly scooped up Dr. Sumbul Desai, the executive director of Stanford Medicine’s…
Apple’s next killer app is health: Apple Watch will someday track your sleep, glucose levels, and more
Over the past few decades, Apple has revolutionized the personal computer…
Can me-too Google’s me-too ‘Google Fit’ catch up with Apple’s revolutionary HealthKit?
Not long after Apple launched its health platform HealthKit on iOS in mid-2014…
How wearables knew this researcher was sick long before he did
Stanford geneticist Michael Snyder’s research into wearable biosensors has turned into a case study demonstrating…
UPMC Susquehanna’s new surgical center supported by Apple technology
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away…
iPhone apps hold the potential to revolutionize health
More than a year and a half ago, Apple unveiled a new breed of iPhone apps that would let people…
Apple’s iPad is the ‘new stethoscope’ and every doctor needs one
The move to put iOS inside healthcare is gathering so much momentum…
Key Apple health technology executive has left the company
Yoky Matsuoka, who joined Apple Inc. in May as an executive to help run health technology initiatives…
Emails between Apple and FDA hint at future plans
Since its well-publicized meeting with the FDA in 2013, Apple has continued to meet with the agency…
Apple hires Duke’s Dr. Bloomfield, a HealthKit and ResearchKit pioneer
Dr. Ricky Bloomfield, a doctor on the forefront of implementing both Apple HealthKit and Apple ResearchKit…
Apple Watch has blood on its hands: ‘Microsoft Band’ wearable is dead
Microsoft has removed all references to its Band devices from its Microsoft Store…
Apple scores major Apple Watch win
Just a few weeks after Apple, Inc. pointed out at its September event that it is now the second-largest watchmaker…
In major win for Apple, Aetna becomes first insurance company to subsidize Apple Watch
Aetna today announced a new initiative to revolutionize members’ consumer health experience…
Apple reportedly working on sleep tracker for the Apple Watch
During the unveiling of the new Apple Watch, the iPhone-maker presented the wearable as primarily a fitness device…
Apple to expand HealthKit from tracker to diagnosis tool; new Apple Watch apps for sleep tracking, fitness levels in pipeline
So far Apple Inc.’s HealthKit has mostly collected fitness data from its devices…
Apple acquires Gliimpse
The company was started in 2013, and funded by serial entrepreneur Anil Sethi, who has spent the past decade…
Apple rehires Flipboard co-founder Evan Doll to develop health software
Apple Inc. has hired Flipboard co-Founder Evan Doll to help the world’s largest publicly trading technology…
Apple working on all-new, advanced health-tracking hardware; years in the making
Apple has developed a ‘revolutionary idea’ with this new product…
Apple CareKit: Building the future of healthcare, one iOS app at a time
First, there was HealthKit, Apple’s platform for tracking health and fitness data through your iPhone or Watch…
‘Game-changing’ study links cellphone radiation to cancer
Findings from a massive, new U.S. federal study suggest that radio-frequency (RF) radiation, the type emitted by cellphones, can cause cancer…
The real reason why Apple made the Apple Watch
I recently spent time with Apple executives involved with the Apple Watch…
New ‘SweatCoin’ iPhone app pays people to get fit
A free smartphone app that will pay people to be physically active launches on Wednesday in Britain…
Apple hires Nest’s former head of technology
Apple has hired famed robotics expert Yoky Matsuoka, one of the co-founders of Google’s X lab and former head of technology at Nest…
First Apple CareKit apps arrive
Apple sees a huge opportunity to connect patients, doctors, and caregivers using mobile technology…
Holding out for a Jobs: Tim Cook still auditioning for position of Apple god
How people use things was Jobs’ lifelong obsession…
How iPhone CareKit apps will revolutionize health care
Apple’s most revelatory launch of the spring isn’t new hardware…
Why you’ll wear an Apple Watch to keep your job
With Apple Watch, Cupertino has taken a leadership position in the mass-market for…
Apple invention turns Apple Watch into a full-fledged medical device
A patent application published Thursday suggests Apple is working to turn Apple Watch into…
Share your fitness data for an Apple Watch – or cash
In one program, workers can buy a $350 Apple Watch for just $25 by meeting exercise goals for two years…
Tim Cook hints Apple might build a health device
Apple CEO Tim Cook has hinted that the company may one day built a medical device, following the success of the Apple Watch…
Move over HealthKit: Why Apple’s ResearchKit is proving the real hit with doctors
Announced alongside iOS 8, HealthKit is a health and fitness-tracking platform that allows health data gathered by the iPhone or Watch…
Johns Hopkins epileptic seizure-symptom app is latest Apple medical research tool
Soon, Apple iPhones and Appel Watches may be able to recognize when someone’s having an epileptic seizure, and call for help…
Apple announces new ResearchKit studies for autism, epilepsy and melanoma
ResearchKit turns iPhone into a powerful tool for medical research by helping doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately…
Apple’s new Japanese R&D center to focus on vehicles, materials, and health
Alongside an expanding retail presence…
GlaxoSmithKline working on integrating Apple’s revolutionary ResearchKit into clinical trials
Apple’s ResearchKit is a new open-source software framework that helps the scientific community…
Three more industries that Apple could disrupt
As I look at Apple today and try and peer into its future…
