Inside HealthKit: Apple’s Answer to the Quantified You

Apple’s plan to help apps, third party devices and healthcare services collect, quantify and share your health data is ambitious and, if it works as advertised, could change the way you track and manage your well-being.

At its most fundamental level, HealthKit is a framework, which lives in Apple’s XCode programming language, for storing, retrieving, manipulating and presenting health info on apps and, perhaps, in third-party devices. It was introduced on Monday as part of the iOS 8 unveiling at the company’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC). According to the team that built it for Apple, iOS Software Engineers Justin Rushing and Siji Rachel Tom, HealthKit is designed to handle simple health data entry, statistical analysis of health data and to allow applications from Health providers to sync data to personal medical records Read more...