Apple Has Just Ushered In The Era Of Digital Health

It’s been coming for a long time–digital health, health tech, mHealth or whatever you’d like to call it.

And it’s been slow and problematic.

But the tides seem to be shifting, and dramatically at that. There are recent events that may have the muscle to drive this new era of consumer health tech and one is name behind it. That’s Apple.

I was struck to hear Tim Cook’s recent proclamation on Apple’s future reported in a recent story.

If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question: ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’, it will be about health,” he said. “We’re democratizing it. We’re taking what has been with the...