BROWSING: Apple Healthkit

Pushing its new Watson Health business unit, IBM on April 13 announced that its cloud-computing platform will store health data using iOS apps like Apple’s ResearchKit and HealthKit. Doctors, researchers and other medical professionals can access the data through IBM’s Health Cloud and use the...

Apple has been gearing up for months to release the latest version of its mobile operating system, and the company has outlined rules that strictly limit developers' use of personal health data that will be collected within the new iOS 8. Apple has its own "health" app that...