Apple has purchased medical records startup Gliimpse, Fast Companyreported Monday, in order to broaden its presence in the personal healthcare information management market.
Apple confirmed that the purchase took place earlier this year, according to the magazine.
Apple in recent years has delved into healthcare with offerings such as HealthKit, CareKit and ResearchKit. The Gliimpse acquisition is seen as an extension of those efforts.
"Apple is highly committed to creating products and services around health," said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies.
"Gliimpse gives Apple another powerful data-tracking tool to tie to their health ecosystem of products and services," he told TechNewsWorld.
What's the "Magical Machine":
Gliimpse has been working for three years on its technology, which it refers to as "a magical machine."
The aim is to eliminate the tower of babble plaguing medical data today by converting medical records that can appear incomprehensible into information that both humans and machines can digest and use.
Apple so far has focused on healthcare information gathered outside the clinical spectrum, said Roeen Roashan, senior analyst for healthcare technology at IHS Markit.
"With Gliimpse, you're opening up the system with hospital records, lab records, and data from pharmacies," he told TechNewsWorld. "That not only expands Apple's reach and strengthens its product, but it also enhances its analytics capabilities in terms of providing better patient care."
What Will Apple do with Gliimpsey's technology ? :
Apple might consider Gliimpse a critical technology to an overarching healthcare service, or it may simply see it as complementary to other Apple health and fitness solutions," said Charles King, principal analyst atPund-IT. "At this point, it's impossible to say
Purchasing Gliimpse could signal a new direction for Apple, noted Bob O'Donnell, chief analyst at Technalysis Research.
"I think we're seeing arguably the beginning of a new type of Apple that's looking outside its core into a number of different areas and seeing how they can be a disrupter," he told TechNewsWorld. "Healthcare is one of those areas."
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