Apple Working on New Apps for the Apple Watch to Track Sleep and Fitness Levels
Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is building an improved health recording and monitoring software that can better analyse the record data and their implications. Apple has hired many health care experts over the years, and it is using their expertise to develop this new software.
The company is also working on new apps for the Apple Watch, including one that helps users in tracking their sleeping patterns. Another app that the Cupertino company is working on will measure a person’s fitness levels by measuring the time it takes for their heart rate to fall from its peak to resting level.
Apple wants to build more software and services so that they act as an additional source of revenue. It will also make up for the slowdown in innovation in mobile hardware.
One of the sources revealed to Bloomberg that adding more sensors to the Apple Watch will not be of much use. For example, a glucometer or a blood-pressure monitor sensor inside the Apple Watch will be useful for a limited set of people. Additionally, any new medical sensor will also require Apple to get the approval from FDA in the US that can make things difficult to Apple. This source revealed the data captured by an accelerometer is enough to monitor a person’s health, but the software available today is unable to parse that data.
Ultimately, Apple wants to turn HealthKit into a tool that will help make it easier to manage one’s health, not only for the person involved but for their doctor as well. The system could allow important data to be quickly transferred into the hospital database or send it across to a doctor when something is wrong. Gliimpse, a company that Apple acquired earlier this year, is going to play a key role in this. The company was aiming to create a universal health record system before it was acquired by Apple.
[Via Bloomberg]
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