What is the crowd's opinion of Apple HealthKit?

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https://developer.apple.com/healthkit/

Description from here.

> HealthKit is a framework designed to house healthcare and fitness apps, allow them to work together and collate their data under the Health app. For example, a heart monitoring app and blood pressure tracking app could send information to each other from within HealthKit to develop a more comprehensive picture of your health. This customised data could then be sent to your physician via an app such as Mayo Clinic, which will allow your doctor to keep an eye on particular changes in your information remotely.

This is kind of interesting... Got bored and nostalgic so I went on YouTube and noticed something: Check out the 1:10 min mark in this clip. In the booth beside Apple is a company called Healthkit, and now Apple actually has its own Healthkit

Edit: as /u/gingercracker has pointed out, it's Heathkit, and I'm dumb.

>Granted if the app is touted as being a complete health tracker, it probably does make sense to include that function.

But it's not, it's a place to see the aggregate data of third party applications utilizing the new HealthKit framework; in fact, HealthKit, not the app, was the headline of the announcement.

Literally, the only thing mentioned was "metrics... in activity"; out of three minutes they spent ten seconds on the app, mostly focusing on third party apps, because that is the point.

TL;DR - Apple made HomeKit, why aren't they building houses? They are clearly failing the homeless.

One of the biggest things I miss about the Wii U is Wii Fit U. It would be neat if there was a sequel where instead of a dedicated fit meter you can use an app to automatically sync data about steps, heart rate, etc through APIs like Apple's HealthKit.

>because it’s easy to add specialized software features to a generalized hardware product

Yes, I'm sure making a touchscreen phone the best phone in the world for the blind was simple. It's amazing no one else has done it.

>it’s just not what they do

Neither was health studies, until it was.

I'm still using Misfit because it:

• already has a web API
• works on Classic Pebbles
• synchronizes with HealthKit (Pebble does this too, but it's now mandatory for any activity tracking app that I use)

That said, I would appreciate seeing [Pebble](/u/TeamPebble) enhance PebbleKit JS with APIs to access the native Google Fit and iOS HealthKit APIs.

It's a data dump that provides an API, same as Homekit. Homekit is on your phone but you don't interact directly with it. Health has user visible data instead of interfaces, so the app is meant to provide you with a basic means of managing data and data sharing. Also, right from Apple...

"HealthKit allows apps that provide health and fitness services to share their data with the new Health app and with each other. A user’s health information is stored in a centralized and secure location and the user decides which data should be shared with your app."

It might be an interesting writeup to read (curious of the sniffing tools and how you reversed engineered what was going on), but the Dexcom iOS app already sends the BG data into Apple's Health app which you can access all the data freely with HealthKit and its APIs, so no need so to sniff, Dexcom is already dumping the CGM data into a data store on iOS devices that make it accessible to anyone who you grant permission to.