Scripps rolls out Apple ResearchKit app to predict risk of heart disease

The Scripps Research Institute on Wednesday announced a new smartphone app that can calculate a user’s risk of heart disease.

WWDC: Why you’ll use Apple’s Breathe app

Apple has a message for you: Remember to breathe. Later this year, the Cupertino, Calif. company is adding a new app to its Apple Watch that walks users through short, deep-breathing programs. The app, appropriately, is called “Breathe.”

Innovative Digital Health Tools Offer ‘Seamless’ Patient Experience

The Nemours App for Asthma is the first product from Nemours’s Center for Health Delivery Innovation, released as part of a new digital health strategy that provides all digital assets on a single platform for users.

iPads are the ‘new stethoscope’ and every doctor needs one…

You can choose to ignore it, but the move to put iOS inside healthcare is gathering so much momentum it’s a triumph of ignorance over good sense to do so.

Here is Apple’s smart plan for digital health

I’ve been talking about Apple’s interest in digital health for years. Bit by bit my expectations on this are proving correct, with Apple developing Health, Activity, Care Kit, Research Kit, advanced biometric sensors and apps for wheelchair users, swimming and even breathing.

Apple vs. Microsoft 3.0: The quest for electronic medical record supremacy?

The current state of healthcare delivery, and specifically electronic medical records (EMR), is reminiscent of the state of office productivity software in the business world during the ’90s.

Apple wants to promote health apps that work

Apple’s plans for digital health are profound. As it pursues them, it is making huge investments in original research, data analysis, patient records, and sensor development. It works with others, including IBM, to develop health care solutions for the elderly and many other health care verticals. And it wants to promote apps that work.

Meet the first Apple CareKit app here

Apple has announced CareKit, It is an open-source software development framework for medical care apps. Here’s what CareKit is, what it means that for both app developers and iPhone and Apple Watch owners, and why you must care. plus the first CareKit apps are here!

Apple’s profound iPhone plans for healthcare

A report today again confirms that Apple is interested in making your iPhone the center of your electronic health records (EHR) data. Apple desires the iPhone to become the center for all of your health data, including clinical, allergy, wellness data and more.