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Apple's Healthbook App for iOS Shown in Renderings with New Details
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I'd hope so or at least have an option to enable it.
Heck, I wouldn't even care if the number was hidden as long as it can be dialed from my phone but at least having a contact name would be sufficient for most.
I'm absolutely excited and can't wait but agree with you it raises many questions
Not sure colored cards work here.
You switch cards and try to explore information on it.
Take a look on alternative Healthbook concept:
www.behance.net/gallery/Healthbook-iOS-8-concept/15373141
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You switch cards and try to explore information on it.
Take a look on alternative Healthbook concept:
www.behance.net/gallery/Healthbook-iOS-8-concept/15373141
Please don't ever become a marketing rep for Apple. You don't see the larger picture. I think these kinds of apps have the potential to dramatically make lives better, give you control of your own health, and reduce healthcare costs.
For example, many people with various medical conditions will be able to monitor themselves without having to go to a doctor's office. That can represent a significant savings in cost and time. With the right apps, a patient can monitor their blood pressure or glucose level, and send the information directly to their doctor via email in real time. With that kind of data available immediately, the doctor can make adjustments to medication on the fly. Or forward the results to a specialist for an immediate consultation instead of having to wait to make an appointment with him (an increasing problem)
Or consider this: an app that monitors a pacemaker and heart rate installed inside a patient's chest via wifi. If the patient is about to have a heart attack, the pacemaker alerts the app to trigger a warning to the patient to sit down or go to the hospital. And maybe even have the phone app automatically dial 911 to call an ambulance. Now that's revolutionary.
Alas, as we now know the watch does not have glucose monitoring, but the rumours are already starting that there will be more sensors in the next version. I am likely to pick up the current watch when it releases, but even if I do, I will buy the next one immediately if glucose monitoring is included.
I am looking forward to seeing the final version of the Healthbook app and I too hope it can track more than a daily entry. I have a Dexcom CGM as well as a fingerstick meter, and use both together combined with medication and insulin to control my sugar levels. I'm currently using a thirdparty app to record sugar levels, and it's not bad.
As you noticed, fingerstick meters can vary in accuracy. I tend to get higher readings from the meter I use (and it's a new meter) than the meter my doctor's office uses. There's also variation from site to site. If I measure from one forefinger, then the other, the readings often vary fairly widely. The Dexcom CGM also does tend to vary somewhat, partly because it measures via interstitial fluid and not blood but partly also because it measures at a different site than the conventional meter.
Devices like an Apple Watch (or similar from Samsung or other makers) will not fully replace FDA-approved devices and treatment from a doctor or nurse practitioner, but as the technology improves, we'll see them being used more often.
A Raman-spectroscopy-using watch that could noninvasively take sugar readings would be incredibly useful not only for known diabetics like me (thanks to a congenital condition, I had high risk and lost on the dice roll of life!) but for people who are diabetic or prediabetic and don't even know it.
If a future Apple Watch gives a reading of 200 mg/dL and the wearer calls their doctor and has a blood test done and starts treatment as a result, that's something that might have not happened had the doctor never had a reason to order the test. Remember, not all diabetics are overweight or feel sick. I had no idea I'd developed diabetes until I was told I had, and I have no idea how long my sugar levels were elevated before I went on medication.