The name for the app reportedly called Healthbook, will be a preinstalled app that can track data points including a user's blood pressure, heart rate, hydration, and potentially other statistics like glucose levels. Also it could remind users to take medications at certain times during the day.
The "Healthbook" application is said to take multiple user interface cues from Apple’s own Passbook app, which is software for storing loyalty cards, coupons, and other materials normally stored in physical wallets.
The new health and fitness application’s interface is a stack of cards that can be easily swiped between. Each card represents a different fitness or health data point. The prototype logo for "Healthbook" is similar to Passbook’s icon, but it is adorned with graphics representing vital signs.Apple is designed iOS 8 with the iWatch in mind, as 9to5mac reported, saying that sources suggest the iWatch and iPhone will be "heavily reliant" on each other for health tracking.
Apple is also working on a new version of the Maps app including transit directions, though that feature still has significant amounts of work to be done and is not a "lock" to be included in iOS 8, claims the site.
The New York Times reported earlier today that several Apple executives met with the FDA last month to discuss mobile medical applications. One expert said the meeting could be "to get the lay of the land for regulatory pathways with medical devices and apps" or "that Apple has been trying to push something through the F.D.A. for a while and they’ve had hangups."
iOS 8 is expected to be previewed at WWDC in June, while the “iWatch” and new models of the iPhone are expected to debut in the second half of the year.
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