Nike drops “Band” from Nike+ Fuel app, adds HealthKit, goes device-free
Nike has updated its Nike+ Fuel app for iOS for the first time since September, adding connectivity with Apple HealthKit, new social sharing features, and, in keeping with a recent fitness band trend,...
View ArticleMisinformation about Apple Watch’s health features spreads
Apple hasn’t changed any of the health sensors or features of its soon-to-launch Apple Watch device since it first announced it last fall. That may be common knowledge to most, but there seems to be a...
View ArticleNutriSystem CEO: “You can’t eat an app for lunch.”
Weight loss company NutriSystem stressed that its weight loss app was a key part of its strategy moving forward, according to the company’s Q4 earnings call. The company’s core offering is an...
View ArticleApple Health update will add more international units, privacy feature
Apple will launch the new version of its mobile OS, iOS 8.2, on Monday, which will include a number of updates to Apple Health, according to a report from BGR. The health app updates fall into three...
View ArticleHow the Apple Watch measures heart rate, and why it (hopefully) won’t give...
Just a few days before the first units start shipping, Apple has posted some support documents that pull back the curtain on some of the technical details of its heart rate monitor, and also give some...
View ArticleAetna’s iTriage user survey finds minority use Apple Health, Google Fit
Aetna business unit iTriage has released data from a survey of 3,300 of its users — a sample of individuals who, as iTriage users, have already adopted mobile health tools — and found that only 48...
View ArticleBasis devices to share fitness data through Apple HealthKit, Google Fit
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. In addition, the...
View ArticleMango Health uses Google Fit to add activity, blood pressure, weight tracking
Gamified medication adherence app maker Mango Health is moving beyond medications, using a new Google Fit integration to add tracking of blood pressure and weight, as well as activity tracking, into...
View ArticleApple engineer explains how Apple decides which HealthKit data types to add
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...
View ArticleGoogle’s iOS Android Wear app doesn’t sync with HealthKit, sends data to...
Soon after Google announced that it released an iOS app, called Android Wear, which allows users to connect certain Android Wear smartwatches with iPhones, a report from Buzzfeed found that fitness...
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