Arnold Zafra walks you through some of the latest improvements in the Health app, including vision and mental health features in watchOS 10.
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Mental Health and Other Enhancements to Apple's Health App
Along with some major news at WWDC, Apple is making a ton of improvements to the Health app, including a focus on mental health.
Sobering Thoughts from TSMC's Founder - TMO Daily Observations 2023-03-17
The founder of Appleās chipmaking partner TSMC struck a worrying note this week when assessing US/Taiwanese relations. TMO Managing Editor Jeff Butts joins Ken to talk about that. Plus – Adventures in Sleep in the Apple Health app.
Thoughts About the Future of AI Applications on Apple Devices and Their Impact on Public Health
Apple’s evolving adoption and development of AI could offer tremendous benefits to public health on a global scale.
Olive Diagnostics Develops WatchOS 'Pee-Tech' that Delivers Real Time Health Data
Olive Diagnostics has developed a WatchOS app that is able to provide real time urinary analysis to both patients and caregivers.
Smartphone App to Predict Heart Disease Risk May Alleviate Death Rate
As cardiac health problems become more prevalent, a team of researchers have developed an app that can predict heart disease risk.
EyeQue Launches AR Vision App 'MyReaderNumber'
EyeQue’s new AR-powered vision app, MyReaderNumber, lets people take vision tests for near-vision and mid-distance vision.
How Caregivers in Ghana Help Their Community During a Pandemic
To go along with its announcement for World AIDS Day, Apple shared the story of Model of Hope program in Ghana.
Joseph is one of 13.8 million people who has access to ART as a result of Appleās contributions to the Global Fundās efforts in Africa, and he sees the effect COVID-19 is having on those he counsels through the Model of Hope program.
University of Michigan Reveals Preliminary Results of Apple Watch Study
The paper notes that data from population subgroups such as elderly, minorities, and from certain clinical conditions are underrepresented, and the results could help doctors.
(Update) Medical AI Company 'Deep6' Leaks 68 GB Trove of Patient Records
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler together with the WebsitePlanet research team found an unprotected database belonging to Deep6. The records appear to contain data of those based in the United States.
Update: Deep6 reached out and said the news is misleading, saying “In August, a security researcher accessed a test environment that contained dummy data from MIT’s Medical Information Mart of Intensive Care (MIMIC) system, an industry standard source for de-identified health-related test data. To confirm, no real patient data or records were included in this ephemeral test environment, and it was completely isolated from our production systems.”
Meanwhile, according to WebsitePlanet, Mr. Fowler said, “I sent 3 follow up emails on Aug 11, Aug 12, Aug 23. No one has ever replied since the first message on Aug 10th.Ā I validated that the doctor’s names were real individuals by searching obscure names (see screenshot). This is highly unusual in my experience to use real individuals’ data in a ‘dummy environment’ under any circumstances. Because no one replied, we added our disclaimer that we are highlighting that no patient data appeared in plain text, the records were “medical related”, and we never implied any wrongdoing or risk.”