Mayo Clinic to Reportedly Help Present iOS 8's Health App at Apple's Media Event

[budselectjr]

Small quibble... It's Johns Hopkins, not John Hopkins.

Must have been fun to be that guy, "it's Johns, not John..." But when you're as rich as that guy was, it probably sailed right past him. He was a great philanthropist, and probably didn't worry much about it.

He got it from his great grandmother, Margaret Johns, who decided to name her son after her maiden name (and who, really, doesn't do that? "hi, my name is McGillicutty Jones"), and Johns' parents passed it down to him.

OK, enough trivia, on with the show!

I smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

I smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins

And Johnny Walker?

 

[Sloppy.Joe]

Mmmmmmmm..... maaaayo.

 

[nozebleed]

In spite of some obvious advantages, I'm not convinced that the possibly unrestricted flow of confidential and strictly private health data is all for altruistic motives.

In spite of flowery assurances to the contrary, once this information is uploaded to servers, the patient has no way of knowing, or controlling, who has access to all that data, and worse, for what purposes.

Insurance companies, and who knows who else, will use this info to benefit themselves rather than the patient.
Color me skeptical.

for a min there i thought you were talking about obamacare

 

[Suture]

As an athlete that tracks everything from my training, sleep, diet, hydration among others I'm excited about the possibilities here - especially with a tie in to an apple and or third party sports watch.

Ditto. I use Fitbit currently to track the same things, and have tried a few other things in the past (MFP, Nike+ stuff, etc.). So even though I'm looking to upgrade from an iPhone 5 to a 6, I am more interested in these health tracking possiblities.

 

[larrylaffer]

Four pages and nobody has said "Give me Hamm on 5 and hold the Mayo."

 

[FreeState]

What is it that you're finding useful from your sleep monitoring?

Hours, wake time and REM time. I match this up with my training and results (along with my nutrition) to fine tune my diet and training.

 

[HiRez]

I live in the UK, and can say without any hesitation I am watching year after year the "General / Mass" UK population follow America's lead and get fatter and fatter and fatter.

We are almost nearing the stage of "spot the thin woman" in a Food Supermarket now, whereas I can remember the fat one was the odd one out.

Kids are getting fatter and fatter, stores are full or ready made pre packaged food. More take away variety than ever.

I'm not saying people don't want to be healthy, but they can't just stop throwing more and more tasty junk food down their mouths.

Dude, "health" is about a lot more than "obesity". You've heard of various heart ailments? Diabetes? Cancer? Hormone imbalances? Pregnancy? I'm not saying an iWatch will address all these things immediately, it won't. But many could be tied in, and more sensors will undoubtedly be added in the future.