{"id":5964,"date":"2014-06-23T08:05:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2014-06-23T08:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:05:55","slug":"healthy-skepticism-my-critique-of-healthkit-as-both-ios-dev-and-registered-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5964","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Skepticism \u2013 My Critique of HealthKit as Both iOS Dev and Registered Nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/blog.jaredsinclair.com\/post\/89292422325\/healthy-skepticism-my-critique-of-healthkit-as-both\">Jared Sinclair<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the many new APIs announced at WWDC this summer, HealthKit has been particularly thought-provoking for me. At the risk of sounding like that guy, I think I have a somewhat priviledged perspective of HealthKit. There can\u2019t be that many former registered nurses who\u2019ve switched to iOS app development and tried to start a healthcare data company.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;I\u2019ve devoted the better part of the last four years to understanding the healthcare industry, both its current problems and its possible futures. Along the way I\u2019ve learned many things \u2013 some hopeful, some downright depressing. I ought to describe how HealthKit looks from my vantage point.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Before jumping into HealthKit, let\u2019s take a step back and look at the past and present state of healthcare information \u2013 what it is, where it\u2019s stored, and how it\u2019s transmitted and used. I\u2019ll limit my description to the US since that is what I\u2019m most familiar with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Sinclair: Of the many new APIs announced at WWDC this summer, HealthKit has been particularly thought-provoking for me. At the risk of sounding like that guy, I think I have a somewhat priviledged perspective of HealthKit. There can\u2019t be that many former registered nurses who\u2019ve switched to iOS app development and tried to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5965,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}