Dr. Kumar leveraged Apple’s HealthKit application to enable patients to aggregate their health data and share it with caregivers. A continuous glucose monitor connects to HealthKit via Bluetooth to share data. HealthKit then is connected to a patient’s medical record and records the information there.
Christopher Dawes, CEO of Lucile Packard’s, confirmed to Fast Company Dr. Kumar’s new appointment with Apple. “We can’t compete with companies like Apple, Google and Facebook when they really want one of our own,” he told Fast Company, adding Dr. Kumar will remain part-time at the hospital.
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