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At its World Wide Developers Conference yesterday, Apple announced two new health tools: a health data tracking platform for developers called HealthKit and a dashboard app for consumers simply called Health.

Below is MobiHealthNews' transcript of Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi's presentation about Apple's new health tracking platform HealthKit and its companion app Health.

According to a new study, users of Philips Respironics' SleepMapper app were 22 percent more adherent to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy than non-users.

Ninety-three percent of adults would prefer to go to a doctor that offers email communication, according to a recent survey of 433 Americans aged 21 and over from Catalyst Healthcare Research.

Two offerings enable customization that once took piles of money and chunks of time to accomplish. Spanning the care continuum, these services now can streamline coordination.

At Apple's WWDC event, the company announced its rumored native health tracking platform, which we now know to be called HealthKit.

At the American Diabetes Association meeting next month, diabetes management software company Glooko and the Joslin Diabetes Center will launch HypoMap, a new patient-facing platform to help increase patients' awareness of hypoglycemic events.

StartUp Health has added eight companies to its portfolio.

The Health Data Exploration project, developed at the University of California San Diego and the University of California Irvine, received a $1.

New Zealand-based medical device company Nexus6 has received FDA clearance for its smartphone-connected inhaler, SmartTouch, as a class II medical device.