Healthcare Analytics News June 5, 2018
The smartphone, smartwatch, digital music, tablet, software, and computer giant Apple is continuing its potentially-disruptive march into the healthcare world with a newly-announced application programming interface (API) suite.
Apple hopes that the feature will help researchers and developers build health management and insight applications—and it’s a logical evolution for the company’s health offerings. If it seems like the company launches a big health-related product or functionality every year or so, it’s because it does.
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