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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…
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 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 working on all-new, advanced health-tracking hardware; years in the making
Apple has developed a ‘revolutionary idea’ with this new product…
GlaxoSmithKline is first drugmaker to use Apple’s ResearchKit
GlaxoSmithKline Plc has started a study using Apple Inc.’s ResearchKit, marking the first time a drugmaker…
The real reason why Apple made the Apple Watch
I recently spent time with Apple executives involved with the Apple Watch…
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…
Boston Children’s Hospital launches Feverprints ResearchKit iPhone study
The Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA) and Autoinflammatory Diseases Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital…
How iPhone CareKit apps will revolutionize health care
Apple’s most revelatory launch of the spring isn’t new hardware…
Apple advances health apps with CareKit
Apple today announced CareKit, a new software framework designed to help developers enable people…
Apple announces advancements to ResearchKit
Apple today announced advancements to the open source ResearchKit framework…
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…
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 software turns iPhones into powerful tools for medical research
More than 75,000 people have enrolled in health studies that use specialized iPhone apps…
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…
Apple invents new Apple Watch biometric ID system using plethysmography
Today, a new Biometrics related patent surfaced in Europe with a whole new approach…
Why Apple is the most important health company in the world
The unique combination of assets, starting with Apple’s powerful relationship with…
ResearchKit, Apple’s medical data experiment, explained
Apple’s way of letting people use their iOS devices and apps to join medical studies and send data to researchers…
Apple, researchers working to offer iPhone owners DNA tests
Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that…
IBM’s Watson gets ready for Apple Watch, health apps
Since blowing away the competition on television’s…
Why I’m breaking down and buying an Apple Watch
I’ve gone back and forth over the last several weeks trying to decide whether…
Apple Watch be as indispensable as a stethoscope? How Apple will impact healthcare
Until Apple Watch, the smartwatch was seen as a niche product…
Apple announces ResearchKit available today to medical researchers
Apple today announced ResearchKit, a software framework designed for medical and health research…
Apple and IBM expand partnership to help transform medical research
IBM today announced its Health Cloud and Watson cognitive computing capabilities…
