<story><title>My Critique of HealthKit as Both iOS Dev and Registered Nurse</title><url>http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/89292422325/healthy-skepticism-my-critique-of-healthkit-as-both</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text>&lt;i&gt;for stored medical data to be of any significant use to healthcare providers, it can’t be limited to just A) patients who own iPhones and use HealthKit apps and B) providers with EHRs configured to access those apps&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s really not true. Just gathering sensor data and showing it to your doctor at your next visit could be &lt;i&gt;extremely&lt;/i&gt; useful, even with zero EHR integration.&lt;p&gt;If some healthcare providers have apps that serve as an API into their backend EHR system, that&amp;#x27;s a bonus. But it&amp;#x27;s super-useful just for a doctor to be able to look a hyper-detailed health log book that patients bring with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macspoofing</author><text>The way I understand HealthKit, it is EHR agnostic. Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t really want to directly compete in health-care. It&amp;#x27;s a mess, and it would be incredibly defocusing for them, and frankly, the upside just isn&amp;#x27;t there. What they want is for other companies to do the leg work and take on the regulatory risk by going through any relevant certifications and clinical trials. They simply want them to use iOS as a platform.</text></comment>
<story><title>My Critique of HealthKit as Both iOS Dev and Registered Nurse</title><url>http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/89292422325/healthy-skepticism-my-critique-of-healthkit-as-both</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text>&lt;i&gt;for stored medical data to be of any significant use to healthcare providers, it can’t be limited to just A) patients who own iPhones and use HealthKit apps and B) providers with EHRs configured to access those apps&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s really not true. Just gathering sensor data and showing it to your doctor at your next visit could be &lt;i&gt;extremely&lt;/i&gt; useful, even with zero EHR integration.&lt;p&gt;If some healthcare providers have apps that serve as an API into their backend EHR system, that&amp;#x27;s a bonus. But it&amp;#x27;s super-useful just for a doctor to be able to look a hyper-detailed health log book that patients bring with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MBCook</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s kind of my thought on this. Thanks to my FitBit I have a log of most things I ate, how much I excersized, and how much I weighted going back over a year. It&amp;#x27;s not perfectly accurate (forgetting to weigh in, choosing to slack off on food entry, forgetting my FitBit) but it&amp;#x27;s a hell of a lot better than I would do otherwise.&lt;p&gt;I can see, objectively, if I seem to be getting more or less exercise, or if I&amp;#x27;m gaining or losing weight. Having every measurement of someone&amp;#x27;s glucose if they are diabetic has got to be very useful.&lt;p&gt;Not everyone will keep records, not everyone who does will use it. But in the cases where someone does it seems like it should be beneficial in more than a few cases.</text></comment>