What's new in health and fitness
June 7, 2021
Discover how you can take your app’s health monitoring to the next level with HealthKit, ResearchKit, and CareKit. Explore how you can support new Health features like Walking Steadiness and the six-minute-walk metric for Apple Watch, and gather actionable data for people to improve their health while protecting their privacy. We’ll also show you how to access verifiable health records in your app and build a research and care pilot app from start to finish.
Measure health with motion
Discover how you can take your app’s health monitoring to the next level with motion data. Meet Walking Steadiness for iPhone and the six-minute-walk metric for Apple Watch: Walking Steadiness can help your app interpret someone’s quality of walking and risk of falling, while the...
Watch nowExplore Verifiable Health Records
Find out how you can securely request access to someone’s verifiable health records and incorporate that data safely into your app. The Health app helps people download, view, and share their health records, including their COVID-19 immunization and test results — and iOS 15 brings support for...
Watch nowCode-Along: Build a Research and Care app
Take the tedium out of paper surveys with ResearchKit and CareKit.
View nowGetting movement disorder symptom data
Using Apple Watch to Estimate Six-Minute Walk Distance
Measuring Walking Quality Through iPhone Mobility Metrics