Reliance Jio is bringing Apple's HealthKit features to India with its new app

India’s Reliance Jio telecom operator is providing a bouquet of apps at no cost to its subscribers, hoping to lure them away from Netflix, Apple Music and a variety of different providers. The corporate has quietly launched one other app, this time going after Apple's HomeKit, and Google's Well being providers. 

A well being and health centric app referred to as Jio Well being Hub is listed on the corporate’s Google Play itemizing. The app, which says "unreleased" in its description, is aimed toward permitting individuals to have all their well being associated paperwork obtainable at one place and supply them with the power to readily share the reviews with others.

The options of Jio Well being Hub places it into the identical class as Apple's HealthKit and Google Well being. The 2 widespread providers retrieve medical and health info from different comparable apps and function a central dashboard. Apple, moreover, has partnerships with hospitals for immediately feeding affected person info by way of HealthKit.  

"All your knowledge is saved within the cloud which is accessible from anyplace and on any gadget however together with your safe credentials, which suggests you'll be able to carry your medical data with you always with out having to hold any papers, bodily information, check movies or lab stories," the outline for Jio's app reads.

In accordance with the outline, the corporate has partnered with labs and hospitals, which can mechanically push medical data to the app. It hasn't listed which hospitals help this app, nevertheless. 

Jio Well being Hub, which isn't obtainable for iOS customers but, additionally has options to shortly retailer medical data within the app from non-partner hospitals too. The outline suggests that a consumer might merely take an image of the report utilizing the digital camera on their smartphone and save the picture within the app.