“I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’, it will be about health,”
Tim Cook - 2019
“Today Apple shared a new report that offers a snapshot of the ways Apple products are empowering people to be at the center of their health, and acting as an intelligent guardian for their health and safety. Users, developers, medical institutions, and health organizations around the world are using Apple devices, features, and APIs to break down barriers between people and their health information, all while keeping privacy in mind.”
Interestingly, there’s an app on the watch for that:
Medications
Set up a medication schedule and reminders.
Medication education and alerts for potential critical interactions.
Medications With iOS 16 and watchOS 9, the new Medications experience on Apple Watch and iPhone helps users manage and track medications, vitamins, and supplements they take by allowing them to create a medications list, set up schedules and reminders, and view information on their medications in the Health app. In the US, users can simply point their iPhone camera at a label to add a medication, read about the medications they’re taking, and receive an alert if there are potential interactions for their medications.
On the lighter side, the corporate jargon density is at the level of high art. “Empowering users on their personal health journey, supporting the health ecosystem…”
From Apple’s document
“ Hearing health
Providing users with a range of features to help them protect their hearing health
Apple Watch and iPhone can help users monitor for noise exposure that can damage their hearing over the long term.”
A little irony here, Apple’s products (iPod, earphone) have been the single biggest cause of youth hearing loss so far.
