How to share Apple Watch Activity progress with friends & family
Some people need a little encouragement — or friendly rivalry — to get in shape. Here's how to share Activity stats from your Apple Watch with others.
Health
Roger Fingas
Always on call: UK's NHS pilot provides video consultations via iOS app
The National Health Service in the United Kingdom is piloting a scheme that would allow patients to be seen by a local doctor using a video call on an iPhone, a move that could help reduce the waiting times for patients to see a doctor, as well as reducing the need to visit the physical doctor's office.
Malcolm Owen
Jamf works with Bungie to improve 'iPad for Kids' program, plans expansion into more hospitals
Apple device management firm Jamf has teamed up with The Bungie Foundation to give children in hospital a better experience while undergoing treatment, providing young patients with access to an iPad loaded with a variety of apps and other content to entertain and reduce distress.
Apple researching whether Apple Watch can detect common heart conditions
Apple is working with Stanford clinicians and telemedicine vendor American Well to determine whether Apple Watch can be used to detect abnormal heart rhythms, a feature that would make the wearable desirable to doctors and high-risk patients, a report said Monday.
Mikey Campbell
Apple Watch app tracks viewer heart rate spikes during 'Game of Thrones'
Fans of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones are more excited by dialogue than by action scenes, according to a study by heart monitoring app Cardiogram of Apple Watch users.
How to use the Medical ID feature in Apple's iOS Health app
A lesser-known but theoretically life-saving feature of Apple's iOS Health app is Medical ID — a quick guide for nurses, doctors, ambulance crews and others in an emergency. Here's how to set it up on an iPhone running iOS 10.
Get the most out of Apple's Health app with these starter tips
Apple's Health app for the iPhone can be a useful way of tracking fitness and medical data — so long as everything is configured and used just the right way. Here's the essentials to get going.
Sweetgreen iPhone app applies meal calorie counts to Apple Health
Organic food restaurant Sweetgreen has added the ability to apply calorie counts for take-out dishes to Health data when orders are placed through an app — and it appears to be among the first of its kind.
Mike Wuerthele
Apple hires head of Stanford's digital health initiative
Apple is moving forward with efforts to build out its health products team with the recent hire of a top Stanford doctor who headed up the university's own digital health initiative.
Daniel Eran Dilger
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