More and more we hear of new ways to monitor one’s own health and, with the changes in healthcare, being more aware of what we each can do to positively affect our own health grows increasingly important. That is why I thought Kansans would be interested in reading Eric Nelson’s article “What’s missing on Apple’s new Health app” in the June 8th Community Digital News. An excerpt of the article is below and please click the link at the end to read the full article.
At first blush Apple’s new ‘Health’ app looks pretty slick, a real game changer. Developed with help from the Mayo Clinic, it’s the first app of its kind to seamlessly integrate personal information from any number of other health-related apps into a single location. But for all its slickness, it seems to have left what many consider to be the most important barometer of our health on the coding table.
It can’t keep track of what we’re thinking.