Apple in talks with major organizations working in the health sector, options for interaction with its own service HealthKit, reports news agency Reuters. The company in a hurry to conclude a major deal on the eve of the launch of iOS 8.
According to informed sources, the talks about the features of the service are carried out with the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as company Allscripts, competitor Epic Systems, which designs systems for maintaining medical records in electronic form.
Currently, data on the state of health of the person going to a variety of different applications and medical devices, but it is not stored in one place. In Cupertino plans to provide centralized storage of information that will allow users to more effectively monitor the state of health. HealthKit thus becomes a kind of global medical database in which to store a plurality of histories of patients. The program will be installed on the computers of doctors, patients and the data are likely to be sent to a cloud server.
Platform and application HealthKit Health, allowing to monitor the health with the help of the iPhone and iPad, Apple unveiled in June at the conference WWDC. The system will work in conjunction with external medical sensors. With their help the iPhone will be able to track the performance of the human body, from the heart and ending with blood sugar levels. Also provides for instantaneous transmission of information in the medical centers, if any of the parameters deviate from the norm.
Previously, Apple reported on joint work in this direction with Nike, Epic, and one of the largest medical centers in the world the Mayo Clinic. As reported, the Mayo Clinic conducted test trials HealthKit, signaling on the basis of the data on anxiety symptoms, followed by the provision of information and advice on the treatment of the patient.
According to an insider, about a dozen major systems related to health and use the software Epic, will soon be able to integrate data about health and physical activity of users, derived from HealthKit, in your personal medical record called MyChart.