EveryMove, a fitness tracking incentive network announced its Apple HealthKit integration, making it the first and only HealthKit partner that transforms tracked activity data into charitable donations. HealthKit functions as a "digital health ecosystem" in which a multitude of devices and apps can capture and share activity data, allowing EveryMove access to an increasingly robust network of data sources and to turn this data into charitable donations. Right now, all EveryMove users can
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Ochsner Health’s Epic EHR Integrates with Apple HealthKit
Ochsner Health System, based in New Orleans, La., announced today that it is the first Epic Systems client to successfully integrate its EHR with the new Apple HealthKit. Approximately 53 percent of Americans have their medical records within the Epic EHR, and its MyChart application is the most used patient portal in the United States. The MyChart app gives patients controlled access to the same Epic medical records their doctors use, via browser or mobile app. Patients can access their lab
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Mayo Clinic Launches App with Apple HealthKit Integration
On Thursday, Mayo Clinic launched its mobile health app with Apple HealthKit integration available to Mayo Clinic patients and the general public, VB first reports. Utilizing the HealthKit platform, the new app will be able to collect health data from a number of connected health apps/devices in iOS8. "What patients will be able to do is keep this info in HealthKit. When they see their providers, they will be able to share it with their providers in a one-on-one visit. In the future, we should
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Axial Exchange’s Patient Engagement App Integrates with Apple HealthKit
Axial Exchange, Inc., a pioneer in using mobile applications to deepen the patient’s role in improving outcomes, today announced that it has completed its integration with Apple HealthKit. Axial Exchange app users will now be able to view all of their health and wellness data from the Axial app and other health applications in one, comprehensive mobile dashboard. Apple HealthKit allows health and fitness apps to share their data with each other and with Apple’s new Health app. “Giving users
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drchrono’s PHR Integrates with Apple’s HealthKit
drchrono announced the launch of its Personal Health Record platform (PHR), onpatient, with a HealthKit integration on iOS 8. This integration allows patients to import data they choose from the Health app into their onpatient personal health records and send it to their physician in an easy-to-digest snapshot. According to Dr. James Rieger MD, "In the last few years, patients have been trying to bring their wellness data into the office, but I just couldn't look at it all. This new format
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HealthKit Apps Return Is Quickly Thwarted by More iOS 8 Bugs
Last week, a software bug delayed the launch of Apple HealthKit on iOS8 preventing developers from making HealthKit apps. On Wednesday of this week, Apple provided the first update to the new iOS 8 software that fixes a bug so HealthKit Apps can be made available on the App Store. Other list of changes in the iOS 8.0.1 release include: Addresses an issue where third-party keyboards could become deselected when a user enters their passcode. Fixes an issue that prevented some apps from
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Cerner & Athenahealth Announces Integration with Apple’s HealthKit
EHR leaders Cerner and Athenahealth have announced plans to develop mobile health apps integrated with Apple's Healthkit platform, Reuters reports. Representatives from Cerner and Athenahealth both confirm the developed apps integrated with HealthKit will allow physicians to monitor patients with chronic diseases. Cerner senior director Brian Carter said the company will work with smaller organizations allowing coordinated care teams e.g. (doctors, nurses, clinicians) to access data from
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Apple’s HealthKit To Integrate with Epic’s MyChart App
Apple's HealthKit will integrate with Epic's MyChart app patient portal allowing patients access to their health information according to Epic's president Carl Dvorak, VentureBeat reports. "Apple’s HealthKit has tremendous potential to help close the gap between consumer collected data and data collected in traditional healthcare settings. The Epic customer community, which provides care to over 170 million patients a year, will be able to use HealthKit through Epic’s MyChart application—the
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Software Bug Delays Launch of Apple HealthKit on iOS8
A software bug has delayed the launch of Apple HealthKit on iOS8 preventing developers from making HealthKit apps. "We discovered a bug that prevents us from making HealthKit apps available on iOS 8 today. We're working quickly to have the bug fixed in a software update and have HealthKit apps available by the end of the month," said Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller in a statement. Unveiled in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference, the HealthKit platform will serve as an integrative hub for
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