HealthKit Enhances Disease Research and Patient Monitoring

Even though iOS 8’s HealthKit has yet to be officially released, it is already helping doctors at Duke University and Stanford University keep track of patient wellness in individuals suffering from cancer, diabetes and other chronic health conditions. At Stanford, doctors have entered into a partnership with Apple as part of a pilot program to […]

HomeKit to Sync Up with All Your Apple Devices

At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled its HomeKit suite of “smart home” tools. HomeKit will allow users to control everything from their furnaces and air conditioners to their thermostats and security systems from a single connected iOS device. Smart home technologies are already widely available, but there are some significant limitations on the […]

Apple’s Announces its New HealthKit Suite

  Software developers working in the health and fitness vertical will want to pay close attention to HealthKit, a new suite of tools unveiled by Apple at the company’s 2014 Worldwide Developer Conference. HealthKit is designed to allow programmers to create apps which integrate various types of health and fitness data into a single piece […]