Apple acquires health data startup Gliimpse

The representative was quick to reiterate that they don’t discuss the goal or plans in such acquisitions generally. The startup’s founder Anil Sethi who formed the company in 2013 worked as a systems engineer for Apple back in the 80s.

The three-year-old company collects US-based patients’ medical records and other health information via pharmacies and laboratories in a single platform, allowing them to gain a better insight into their wealth of data and how their health changes over time.

A report by Fast Company said the deal went through earlier this year.

Apple has been focusing a lot on health technologies and has integrated HealthKit, CareKit and ResearchKit at the operating system level.

Apple has acquired Gliimpse. A report reveals that Apple acquired the personal health data startup Gliimpse earlier this year.

“As a consumer of healthcare, I leave behind a bread-crumb-trail of medical info wherever I’ve been seen”. Also, it is worth mentioning that Apple’s technical director, Jay Blahnik, along with the health development team has been working on the new product for over two years. Inspired by his desire to assist his sister during treatment for Stage IV breast cancer, Sethi wrote on his LinkedIn page, Gliimpse “solved the hardest medical data problem, aggregation plus standardization”. This data can then be used by medical researchers to develop “patient-centric apps”, very similarly to Apple’s ReseachKit studies. The platform also stores and encrypts everything so that your personally identifiable data and health data are kept apart from other users, maintaining the privacy and secrecy of everything.

Apple is moving further to expand its health sector, and it has made its first ever acquisition-personal health data startup Gliimpse.

It’s becoming clear Apple believes its powerful personal computing devices could make it a big player in the medical and health fields. It’s not hard to imagine how Gliimpse may mesh with Apple’s other products, however.