Originally written in 2014.
Originally published in mHealthNews. Archive
Will Apple's new health app bridge the gap between consumer engagement and mobile health?
HealthKit generated the usual first wave of platform excitement, but the interesting question was never whether Apple could produce a polished health app shell. It was whether consumer health engagement could be meaningfully connected to the clinical systems behind it.
This note was about that gap. Aggregation is useful. Integration, standardization, privacy, and workflow fit are the harder parts.