{"id":2095,"date":"2014-06-05T23:23:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2014-06-05T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:23:18","slug":"apples-cocks-up-healthkit-slide-at-wwdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Apples cocks up HealthKit slide at WWDC&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s already starting to seem a lot like HSG, except less credible&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/rockhealth.com\/2014\/06\/digital-health-entrepreneurs-thoughts-healthkit\/<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BpJPHAqCIAA0PLS.jpg\" alt=\"Embedded image permalink\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"post-title\" style=\"color: #9d54a1;\">A digital health entrepreneur\u2019s thoughts on HealthKit<\/h2>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"left large article\" style=\"color: #696a6d;\">\n<div class=\"post-with-avatar\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"single-widget widget_search\">\n<form class=\"searchform\" action=\"http:\/\/rockhealth.com\/\" method=\"get\">\n<div><label class=\"screen-reader-text\" style=\"color: #696969;\" for=\"s\">Search for:<\/label><input style=\"color: #696969;\" name=\"s\" type=\"text\" value=\"\" \/><input class=\"searchsubmit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Search\" \/><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo\" src=\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6ae032c4d9a07d794988fb186037a03a?s=100&amp;d=blank&amp;r=G\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Guest Contributor<br \/>\nJune 03, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Tags:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #9d54a1;\" href=\"http:\/\/rockhealth.com\/tag\/healthkit\/\" rel=\"tag\">HealthKit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"socialtools\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"socialtools_fb\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Frockhealth.com%2F2014%2F06%2Fdigital-health-entrepreneurs-thoughts-healthkit%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=134&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"socialtools_twitter\"><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" style=\"color: #9d54a1;\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/rockhealth.com\/2014\/06\/digital-health-entrepreneurs-thoughts-healthkit\/\" data-text=\"A digital health entrepreneur\u2019s thoughts on HealthKit\" data-related=\"xxinhealth,mgxtro,ng,halletecco,rock_health\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-via=\"Rock_Health\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This morning, Apple made its much-anticipated move into healthcare with HealthKit (aka, the formerly rumored HealthBook.) With a typically dissonant and ever-growing ecosystem\u00a0of health apps, devices and data, digital health needs a major player to enter to integrate these products and tools. We\u2019re excited about what the largest company in the world is capable of doing for digital health. Here\u2019s some perspective on what a seasoned digital health entrepreneur had to say about today.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #9d54a1;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soychemist\">Aaron Rowe<\/a><br \/>\nHealthKit is\u00a0really\u00a0exciting. Putting all of this information in one place, in a gorgeous app that will reach a ton of people, could do wonders for public health. But it won\u2019t do much good if the on-screen content is designed without input from people who deeply understand health metrics. It looks like Apple or one of its partners made some technical mistakes on a slide that was shown during the big reveal of their new health app.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-22418\"><\/span><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #9d54a1;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/engadget\/status\/473527892823904256\/photo\/1\">The slide<\/a>,\u00a0which appeared toward the end of the HealthKit segment of today\u2019s WWDC keynote, neatly displays four key metrics for diabetes management: glucose, carbs, walking, and diabetes medication adherence. The numbers and units that Apple used as examples to\u00a0illustrate their vision\u00a0don\u2019t make sense. When you measure your glucose with a personal blood sugar meter, it is measured in mg\/dL\u2014 but\u00a0the\u00a0example shown by Apple displayed\u00a0these numbers in mL\/dL. Whoops!<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s worse, the app screen features an SMS-style message from a particularly photogenic doctor who says, \u201cYou\u2019re making great progress with your diet and exercise. Keep it up.\u201d While the graph above this message shows a steady and very unhealthy looking uptrend in the users glucose readings. The current reading shown on the app is 122 \u201cmL\/dL\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople with a fasting glucose level of 100 to 125 mg\/dL have impaired fasting glucose (IFG), or prediabetes,\u201d according to a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #9d54a1;\" href=\"http:\/\/diabetes.niddk.nih.gov\/dm\/pubs\/diagnosis\/\">National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website<\/a>. \u201cA level of 126 mg\/dL or above, confirmed by repeating the test on another day, means a person has diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>It strikes me as particularly unusual that Apple would make these mistakes, since they are known for their intense attention to detail. Perhaps this kerfuffle happened because none of the folks who were involved with the WWDC keynote know what medical details should look like\u2014is there some disconnect within the group that is building HealthKit? \u00a0Have the designers who worked on this screen had enough contact with Apple\u2019s partners at the Mayo Clinic or recently hired health experts? Not long ago, the Cupertino-based company onboarded\u00a0several noninvasive glucose-monitoring experts from the wearable Raman spectrometer company C8 MediSensors and an early employee of Rock Health\u2019s own Sano Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>I hope HealthKit will help patients understand and react to the results of every common blood test that is done in the home and medical labs\u2013from cholesterol to creatinine. This could be one of the greatest ways in which Apple can make the world a better place. But they may need to sync internally to refine their understanding of these numbers, before they release this potentially lifesaving product into the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Rowe is a research director at Integrated Plasmonics, a San Francisco startup that has developed a new class of spectrometer and surface plasmon resonance sensor chips. He and his colleagues are exploring ways to expand the scope of chronic disease management programs, enhance the success of new medications, and increase the usefulness of telemedicine by bringing a wide variety of in vitro diagnostics devices into the home and workplace. You can follow him on Twitter at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #9d54a1;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soychemist\">@soychemist<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s already starting to seem a lot like HSG, except less credible&#8230;! &nbsp; http:\/\/rockhealth.com\/2014\/06\/digital-health-entrepreneurs-thoughts-healthkit\/ A digital health entrepreneur\u2019s thoughts on HealthKit Search for: Guest Contributor June 03, 2014 Tags:\u00a0HealthKit Tweet This morning, Apple made its much-anticipated move into healthcare with HealthKit (aka, the formerly rumored HealthBook.) 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