Report: Apple working on advancing HealthKit


Bloomberg:

The ultimate goal of Apple's medical technology team is to turn HealthKit into a tool that improves diagnoses, the people said. The system could chip away at two problems that plague the industry and have stumped other specialist firms in the field: interoperability -- allowing data to be transferred from hospital to hospital across different databases; and analysis -- making it quick and easy for physicians to extrapolate salient information from mountains of data.

Apple is also thought to be working on new apps in addition to it seems a hub for health data. HealthKit basically is a hub for data collected from various apps and devices, but Apple may be going beyond that by interfacing with other data collections.