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Title: How hospitals will use HealthKit to monitor your vitals
Post by: HCK on September 16, 2014, 09:00:24 am
How hospitals will use HealthKit to monitor your vitals

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<p>Apple has made no secret of the fact that it’s working with healthcare providers to test the HealthKit tools in iOS 8 (http://www.macworld.com/article/2310813/apple-unveils-healthkit-to-integrate-health-and-fitness-data-in-ios-8.html), but now we have more details on its trials with Stanford and Duke’s hospitals.</p><p>Physicians at the university hospitals will start trials in the next few weeks that will allow them to track patient data more effectively, according to a Monday report from Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/15/us-apple-health-idUSKBN0HA0Y720140915). Doctors at Stanford University Hospital will use HealthKit to track blood sugar levels of diabetic children, while Duke University physicians plan to track vitals like blood pressure for patients with heart disease and cancer. Apple alluded to the partnerships in its iOS 8 release date announcement (https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/09/09Apple-Announces-iOS-8-Available-September-17.html) last week.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2607285/how-hospitals-will-use-healthkit-to-monitor-your-vitals.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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