Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has very big plans for iPhone, and to fulfill them, he has a secret team of engineers who work hard to transform the smartphone into a medical information hub. More precisely, the application Health, would be at the center of this effort by the Apple company, it will store medical information from a variety of medical devices, or applications.
This secretive Apple team works with developers, hospitals and other groups in the medical industry to integrate clinical medical information into the iPhone. More precisely, we are talking here about information regarding lists of allergies, or results for medical analyses, which can be shared by patients with doctors, hospitals, or other medical applications.
Because it is difficult to create such a complex system from scratch, those at Apple are also considering the acquisition of some companies that have been doing this for several years. Apple is mainly interested in those that take this kind of data and store it in cloud systems in a secure way, and Apple has enough money to buy whatever it needs.
Apple wants to turn the iPhone into a hub with medical information
One of the main problems that Apple has with its initiative is the fragmentation of data taken from various information providers. To solve it, he is having discussions with specialists in the field of digital medicine and research, including hiring a number of engineers specialized in retrieving medical information and storing it in the cloud.
This project is so important for the Apple company that some compare it to the one that developed Apple Music, so it is clear that a lot of money is being invested. So far, no companies have been bought by those from Apple, but as it will be realized that some results cannot be obtained without acquisitions, the decision will be made to do that as well.
"These include "The Argonaut Project," a private sector initiative that is promoting the adoption of open standards for health information, and "The Carin Alliance," an organization that is looking to give patients a central role in controlling their own medical data. Replacing CDs and scattered MP3s with a centralized management system in iTunes and the iPod — in the similarly fragmented and complicated landscape for health data."
The interest of the Apple company in the integration of medical data in the iPhone appeared after the launch of the Apple Watch and the focus on convincing people to do more physical exercises. Apple will achieve whatever it sets out to do because it has so much money that if it doesn't want to, it can't carry out any bold project like this.
