Apple Smartwatch with sensors to monitor vital signs, fitness

Health Kit Apple

Apple expected to unveil a smartwatch embedded with more than 10 sensors to monitor health and finess signs according to source. Apple has declined to comment.

Health Kit Apple

Apple already has HealthKit, a data repository created to work with iOS apps, storing information collected by various devices. HealthKit can channel the information to doctors, app developers and others, with a user’s permission.
HealthKit will work with apps in Apple’s next mobile operating system, iOS 8, due out later this month. The new operating system will also include an app called Health – a dashboard for health and fitness information such as heart rate, calories burned, blood sugar and cholesterol, as well as lab results and medications.
So far, interest in digital health has been confined mainly to athletic people who are motivated to upload personal fitness information into apps and track their daily activity through devices.

Many hospitals and insurers are intrigued by the possibilities of Apple’s smartwatch and HealthKit. John Halamka, chief information officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said doctors could remotely monitor patients after a procedure for signs of complications. He said hospitals can also save money by detecting problems early because the Affordable Care Act penalizes hospitals that have too many readmissions.
The company has been working on ways to use advanced sensors to track a person’s blood pressure, body temperature, glucose and hydration levels.

Source :- Online WSJ

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