All the devilry of Apple to monitor health
Apple plans to expand the capabilities of its Health app on the iPhone in the coming months. New features include improved sleep tracking and a reminder to take medication. There is still work to be done regarding blood pressure monitoring via Apple Watch
Apple will be pumping its iPhone health app.
The Cupertino giant is working on a new sleep monitoring and a tool to remind people to take drugs, reveals Bloomberg , picked up by The Verge .
As Engadget points out, health has been a big focus for the Apple Watch since the jump, and the Series 8 could add a sensor to detect body temperature to the mix. At first, it appears that the plan is to help users with fertility planning. It could later be used to tell the wearer if their body temperature is high, although you may not see a numerical measurement.
The Bitten Apple company is still working on developing a blood pressure monitor. But for this functionality, users will still have to wait. Another feature that has been talked about for some time but probably won't be present in Series 8 devices is non-invasive blood glucose monitoring.
All the details.
THE MONITORING OF DRUGS
Let's start with the features that are likely to be available to users shortly.
iOS 16 may feature enhancements to the Health app that expand sleep tracking functionality, as well as add new drug management and women's health features. Drug tracking would allow users to scan pill bottles and track when they took the drug.
However, the initial version that launches this year is unlikely to include all the features Apple has planned.
BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
Additionally, the company is still planning to add a body temperature sensor to the Apple Watch this year. Body temperature changes over the course of the menstrual cycle, and that data can help predict when someone might have their period or window when they are most likely to get pregnant.
Future Apple Watch models could determine if a user has a higher-than-normal body temperature, but it's unlikely to show an exact measurement, according to Macrumors .
ABOUT BLOOD PRESSURE
Finally, Apple is accelerating plans to add a blood pressure monitor to the Apple Watch by 2024, according to Bloomberg .
Blood pressure is an important goal for health tracking companies. It could also make the devices significantly more useful for monitoring heart health. But the feature – as The Verge points out – is complicated, and experts say it still needs further refinements before it can work well in the real world.
Right now, the technology used in smartwatches can only check whether blood pressure is rising or falling. Not forgetting that it should be calibrated against a standard cuff to provide a crude measure of blood pressure. Apple aims to use its feature to report high blood pressure to the wearer, according to Bloomberg , and is now running employee tests.
Bloomberg also reports that some employees are dissatisfied with Apple's progress, arguing that improvements are taking too long, not enough risks are being taken, and that the healthcare team hasn't grown for at least two years.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/tutte-le-diavolerie-di-apple-per-monitorare-la-salute/ on Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:02:02 +0000.