Apple has hired a small team of biomedical engineers to work at a nondescript office in Palo Alto, California, miles from corporate headquarters.
They are part of a super secret initiative, initially envisioned by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, to develop sensors that can noninvasively and continuously monitor blood sugar levels to better treat diabetes, according to three people familiar with the matter.
With Apple’s move into medical research over the last few years, this wouldn’t surprise me. They are more than just a technology, but this one is a tough nut to crack.
I’m a Type I diabetic, and over the last few years especially I’ve gotten into a good control groove. I’m looking at this with great interest…but warily. I’ve tried using Continuous Glucose Monitors, and have found them more of a pain in the butt than a benefit. But if Apple is able to pull this off, using nothing but the Apple Watch, and not requiring swapping out fixed-life modules and sensors…then I’d be interested.
Assuming they get past those obstacles, I’d be very interested to see how they sync this data with the Health repository. There is currently a blood glucose segment, and I have a logging app that feeds data in and out of it. At what interval does the Watch send data to be logged by Health? Or is there some other CGM category to come? Will be interesting.
As I understand the Health app, it’s not meant as an input mechanism, nor a display mechanism, but as a storage place/clearinghouse for the data. I see lots of apps for putting data INTO Health…I would be interested to see apps that take data out for advanced presentation. I would much rather have an app to visualize my blood glucose trends out of Health then have one that syncs with some cloud account. I don’t want my health data stored in the cloud.
I recall a not-recent article somewhere where Jobs and Gates had said medical was the new boom area, and that they’d have gotten into that if they had started later. This article fits, showing even more that Apple is steering to include health initiatives.
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what perplexes me is how my HealthKit data store is wiped out when switching devices via iCloud backup alone. I’ve read its only retained if doing an iTunes backup, which is lame.
I had no idea. Baffling.
I’m not baffled, but I wonder if it could be done differently…for the same reason I am not baffled by iCloud Photo Library not syncing Faces across devices: it’s a hedge against a potential iCloud hack. If my iCloud account is hacked, if my iCloud backup is accessed by someone I don’t want to access it…then health data is one bit I would definitely not want there (my personal rule of thumb: if I don’t want my ex-wife to see it, it shouldn’t be in the cloud).
Lots of stuff that goes into the Health app just goes on its own, like steps (when I got my iPhone SE, i was surprised months later that my step count was being tracked, though I hadn’t specifically turned it on. My previous iPhone did not have an M chip), and, I would guess, heart rate when you get an Apple Watch?
Likewise for Faces, though that may seem more trivial…the identification of a photo with a person by someone that is not that person should not be in the cloud…thus Facebook allows you (as the identified person) to eliminate the tag.
At least, that’s how I see it. The iTunes backup can only be done on purpose, and can be encrypted.