Apple HealthKit

The exposed records included user data on name, birthdate, weight, height, gender and location.

Both efforts are employing popular consumer wearables and health trackers to spot potential cases of COVID-19 or other viral diseases as they begin.

LifeScan, a Johnson and Johnson company, just announced that its companion app, Reveal, for people with diabetes who use the OneTouch Verio Sync Meter, now enables data sharing with third party apps through Apple's HealthKit.

HelpAround, the Israel-based startup that raised $550,000 last year to bring the sharing economy to diabetes care, has launched a new app, Alert, which uses HealthKit data in realtime to provide support to patients.

During Apple's recent World Wide Developer Conference an iOS Software Engineer named Shannon Tan gave a presentation for developers that discussed the new features added to HealthKit as part of the iOS 9 launch.

Compared to past World Wide Developer Conferences, Apple's latest presentation was light on health-related content.

New York City and Austin, Texas-based Informed Data Systems has raised $8 million for its One Drop mobile diabetes management platform.

Intel's Basis Peak will now connect to Apple HealthKit and Google Fit, both exporting the data tracked by its wearable and importing a small amount of data from Apple HealthKit.

Google Fit, a fitness app and data hub often considered to be Google's answer to Apple HealthKit, has added a number of new fitness features in a new update.

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