Apple acquires health data management and sharing service

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Apple has acquired Gliimpse, a company founded in 2013. The company offers a service that allows users to collect and manage their health data. The takeover took place in silence at the beginning of this year.

Apple has confirmed the acquisition to Fast Company, stating that the company “regularly buys smaller companies and does not communicate its goals and plans.” With the acquisition, Apple wants to expand its activities in the field of health, the site writes. Gliimpse claims to offer a secure environment in which American users can ‘convert medical data into understandable elements’, without the company having any insight into it.

Users can also personalize their data and provide it with their own story, after which they can share the data. It is not yet clear what exactly Apple plans to do with the acquisition. Because Gliimpse focuses on people with cancer and diabetes, Apple may want to focus more on the chronically ill.

In the field of health software, Apple already introduced HealthKit in 2014, an app that allows users to collect data about their health. A year later it also came with ResearchKit, which makes participation in scientific research possible. In addition, the CareKit SDK is also available.

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