Recently, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June introduced
a HealthKit- a platform that synchronizes various iOS apps, wearables, and
medical devices to a single dashboard app. Considering many mobile fitness app,
there's much more going on when we connect them to Apple's other healthcare
alliances.
Apple’s latest versions of the iPhone 5 allows healthcare app
developers to have a field day with its M7 coprocessor. The good news about
this M7 is that it can easily detect motion. Any application that monitor the
running, walking, driving, and sedentary lifestyles of its users are more
sensitive and can measure more accurately.
Apple is counting on several factors to help HealthKit
succeed where Google Health failed:
ü Total
market share for iPhone is 41.9%
ü 80%
of physicians surveyed owns an iPhone, while 45% own an iPad.
ü Apple’s
hardware and software is not as fragmented as Android's so easy to develop
medical apps for the former.
ü The
growth of the wearables market that 330 million smartwatches will be shipped by
2018.
Combining all these factors, the company has a great chance
to launch HealthKit as the common thread that ties them all together.
But, the warning that might shock you...
The company is truly taking mobile health to the next
level, attracting a plenty of big players like EHR companies, hospitals, and
possibly insurers and not even Google or Microsoft can offer anything close.
Howbeit, while they are definitely anxious to embrace Apple’s consumer brand
loyalty and cache, some early viewers are claiming its everyday impact could
trump the iPod, iPhone, and the iPad. And, one unanswered questions so far is will
the long-rumored iWatch be connected to HealthKit?
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