{"id":2071,"date":"2014-11-14T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2015-03-07T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:00:48","slug":"apple-healthkit-second-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/apple-healthkit-second-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple HealthKit Second Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wearable<\/a>Not long after last month’s Healthkit post, Jawbone updated their Blue app so it would connect directly with HealhtKit. So instead of data being transmitted from Blue Jawbone to Purple Jawbone to HealthKit, it now goes from Blue Jawbone to HealthKit directly. They did it quietly, with any communication to band owners. One day the app updated in the background and it was there. (Customer management, anybody?) So, the data flow got a lot simpler and the way it should be.<\/p>\n

However, I haven’t been returning to the health app very often. There’s not much to look at, just a couple of charts. It’s an interchange platform. If I wasn’t in the health industry I would barely know about it.<\/p>\n

When elephants dance it\u2019s the ants that get crushed, the saying goes. This is very true in tech, particularly when an elephant like Apple makes a big move. In this case, Apple created HealthKit – a nascent healthcare interchange platform. There was already a very interesting interchange platform in early rollout called TicTrac<\/a>. TicTrac is a platform the connects all of the leading wearables out there, keeping everything in one place. It also allows you to create goals and projects using your data, and provides strong visualizations. You can contract with TicTrack to develop you own branded health programs integrating all theses sources. In a lot of ways it’s what HealthKit could become.<\/p>\n

TicTrac is a fine platform but it’s hard to compete against an emerging standard like HealthKit backed by a company like Apple. I recently saw the founders at an Ad Week conference, Health, Wellness & Wearables<\/a>. They were optimistic about the future, but they will have to find a niche to thrive in.<\/p>\n

In spite of HealthKit\u2019s rather basic current state, the future looks bright. Mobile Health News just did a terrific rundown of 137 mobile apps with HealthKit connectivity. Here\u2019s the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on MobiHealthNews\u2019 analysis, here\u2019s a quick breakdown of the top 10 most popular data types pushed to HealthKit and the top 10 most pulled:<\/p>\n

Number of apps pushing various kinds of data (or \u201cwriting\u201d)\u00a0to Apple HealthKit.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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