The trend of the Apple Watch is to become, not only your ideal companion when you are practicing sports, but also a health center on your wrist. Are already several that cases in which the Apple Watch has announced to its owner that he had heart problems, the latter having enough reaction time to be able to travel to a health center and ask his doctor for the results offered by the Apple smart watch.
However, Apple continues to work on being able to achieve a much more powerful tool and at more levels than to diagnose heart problems. A new application programming interface (API) focused on Movement Disorders was recently launched. And you want to try to be able keep track of Parkinson's disease.
This new API wants to track throughout the day based on two characteristic Parkinson's movements. One of them are uncontrolled movements —dyskinesia- while the individual is at rest. And another are the tremors or shaking. With this new API, applications will be able to monitor these disorders throughout the day and thus be able to find signs of the fatal disease before it manifests itself.
Likewise, Apple and scientists continue to work to bring more solutions to our wrist. Moreover, in parallel they have also been working to be able to track and monitor — all thanks to ResearchKit— problems like autism, melanoma, and epilepsy.
But back to Parkinson's, with this Apple Watch-based solution, doctors will be able to have a more complete view than when the patient goes to a clinic for the relevant tests. In this way they will be able to follow the daily evolution of the patient by dumping the information in the systems and studying if it has improved or worsened.
Now, still waiting for doctors and developers to start working on specific tools that can get the most out of this new API. So in the coming months we could have new health applications in this regard.