When googling apple health kit vs Google fit we come up with the following results.
It's much of the same information, with articles such as:
In Google Fit vs. Apple HealthKit, Fitness Apps Stay Neutral on Mashable or Smackdown: Google Fit vs. HealthKit on Get Real Health.
These articles just relaying that these well known hardware/software companies are now entering the health field information space and setting up for a competition.
What's not really apparent is any differences in feature set, storage capacity, variable labelling or so forth.
Google Fit's release is months away, and no technical information is available on this product yet.
I'm now on Google Fit's interested developer mailing list where you can sign up to get information when it becomes available which you can do by visiting Google Fit's developer site.
Later on I will go down to the office and try to mess around with the apple healthkit app itself, but from my current understanding of the application, the onus is really on the developer to call up information from other apps, and to make sure that apps store their data in such a way that is easily accessible and useable by other apps. Apple's dedicated healthkit website does not give a lot of back end information on how such data will be handled. I'm guessing I'll need to start messing with the application creation kit to start seeing how this data is stored and labeled. I also am interested to see what analytic tracking tools for data are available.
Apparently Samsung has already entered the market in this field. Even though it carries the name Health, it really seems more of a fitness tracker. Available functions are Exercise, Food Diary, Sleep, Pedometer, and Heart Rate. You can see these features at their website which is linked here.
Apple's website suggests that they will also be tracking for Diagnostics, Lab Results, Medications, and Vitals.
Stay tuned for part 2, where I will address more of these issues in depth after consultation with some team members.
On a side note I've already tried to recruit all my friends on facebook to like the Mt. Sinai App Lab facebook page, and now instead of like 5 likes we are up to 12. I tried to upload a picture to the page, but apparently it is only accepting video. I guess I'll do that later.
It's much of the same information, with articles such as:
In Google Fit vs. Apple HealthKit, Fitness Apps Stay Neutral on Mashable or Smackdown: Google Fit vs. HealthKit on Get Real Health.
These articles just relaying that these well known hardware/software companies are now entering the health field information space and setting up for a competition.
What's not really apparent is any differences in feature set, storage capacity, variable labelling or so forth.
Google Fit's release is months away, and no technical information is available on this product yet.
I'm now on Google Fit's interested developer mailing list where you can sign up to get information when it becomes available which you can do by visiting Google Fit's developer site.
Later on I will go down to the office and try to mess around with the apple healthkit app itself, but from my current understanding of the application, the onus is really on the developer to call up information from other apps, and to make sure that apps store their data in such a way that is easily accessible and useable by other apps. Apple's dedicated healthkit website does not give a lot of back end information on how such data will be handled. I'm guessing I'll need to start messing with the application creation kit to start seeing how this data is stored and labeled. I also am interested to see what analytic tracking tools for data are available.
Apparently Samsung has already entered the market in this field. Even though it carries the name Health, it really seems more of a fitness tracker. Available functions are Exercise, Food Diary, Sleep, Pedometer, and Heart Rate. You can see these features at their website which is linked here.
Apple's website suggests that they will also be tracking for Diagnostics, Lab Results, Medications, and Vitals.
Stay tuned for part 2, where I will address more of these issues in depth after consultation with some team members.
On a side note I've already tried to recruit all my friends on facebook to like the Mt. Sinai App Lab facebook page, and now instead of like 5 likes we are up to 12. I tried to upload a picture to the page, but apparently it is only accepting video. I guess I'll do that later.
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