Apple CEO Tim Cook has previously said that the company’s greatest contribution to humanity is likely to be health-related. And over the past decade, Apple has made impressive strides in new health and fitness features, partnerships with the medical community, and more. Now Apple has released a comprehensive guide to how Apple Watch, iPhone and Apple Health are helping people live healthier lives and how it sees the future of its most important work.
Just yesterday we heard a harrowing story about a woman whose life was saved after her Apple Watch discovered a hidden tumor. While we’ve seen many examples of how the iPhone and Apple Watch have saved lives in incredible circumstances, the devices are also improving many aspects of people’s day-to-day health and well-being – and c is what this new guide from Apple aims to share.
Apple COO Jeff Williams opens the nearly 60-page report, “Empowering People to Live a Healthier Day.”
“Apple is working to change the way people think, talk, monitor and focus on their health. We feel drawn to this work not only because of the opportunity to help advance human health, but also because we are driven by our principles to focus talent, resources and expertise where we can do the most good.We passionately believe that technology can play a role in improving health outcomes and encouraging people to live a healthier day.
This report provides an overview of our work to advance health. From the start of our journey, the health innovations we’ve pioneered aim to help break down the barriers between users and their own daily health data, between healthcare providers and patients, and between researchers and study participants.
Williams notes that Apple’s work in health has been primarily in two areas, the personal health and fitness features found on devices like the iPhone and Apple Watch and support for the medical community. .
Closing the introduction, Williams points out that Apple’s health efforts are its most important work and that its vision for the future is to deliver technology that “acts as a smart watchdog” for people’s health. users.
“Our vision for the future is to continue to create science-based technology that empowers people with even more information and acts as a smart guardian of their health, so they are no longer passengers on their own journey. health. Instead, we want people to be firmly in the driver’s seat with meaningful and actionable information. Our priority has always been the trust of our users and, in line with our belief that privacy is a human right Basically, every user should be able to choose who they share their data with and what they share.
We intend to stay on this path, because nothing else matters.
For the guide summary, Apple highlights the key details:
- A growing group of health and fitness features on iPhone and Apple Watch deliver actionable science insights that break down barriers between users and their health information, all designed with privacy in mind.
- iOS 16 and watchOS 9 will deliver features focused on 17 areas of health and fitness, from heart health to sleep, women’s health, mobility, and more.
- The Health app is available on every iPhone and acts as a central and secure location for users to view all of their health information. Users can now store over 150 different types of health data
- Our APIs allow third-party developers to create new solutions that promote healthy lifestyles and health innovation.
- When users are equipped with their own daily health data from Apple Watch and iPhone, they have the ability to share that data with researchers to advance science.
- The medical and research communities use our devices, APIs and frameworks to create new ways to interact with patients.
- Healthcare organizations use Apple devices, APIs and frameworks to strengthen the relationship between doctors and patients with meaningful data and enable care from anywhere.
- All of our health and fitness features were developed based on two fundamental principles: scientific validation processes and user privacy.
Digging through the comprehensive guide, Apple has organized it into two main sections with four subsections each.
Empower users in their personal health journey
This section includes:
- Health data in one place
- Apple Watch acts as a smart guardian of users’ health
- Features to improve everyday health and fitness
- Powering innovative third-party health and fitness apps
Support the health ecosystem by collaborating with the medical community
This section includes:
- Equipping researchers to make new scientific discoveries
- Strengthen the doctor-patient relationship with meaningful data
- Health organizations promoting healthy lifestyles with Apple Watch
- Support public health and government initiatives
Apple closes the guide with an Extensions and Spotlights section and its sources.
Check out Apple’s full guide for all the details.
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