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Over the past few years, Apple has focused heavily on making their products usable and useful in the healthcare industry. It originally started with HealthKit, whose functionality (especially in the US) is constantly expanding. Another significant step forward came with the Apple Watch, which was even approved last week as the first official medical accessory, in the form of a special bracelet that enables ECG measurement. All these efforts in the health sector at Apple are facilitated by a team led by Anil Sethi (founder of the Gliimpse service) since last year. However, he is currently leaving Apple.

Apple bought the start-up Gliimps in 2016, so Sethi, as its founder, had the opportunity to move to the company as well. Gliimpse was a service whose goal was to collect information about patients in one place so that the patient could use it as needed. This idea appealed to Apple, as the company had something similar planned with HealthKit.

In the fall of this year, Sethi left Apple for an indefinite period because he wanted to take care of his seriously ill sister. She died in September as a result of the disease, and this is what caused Sethi's departure from the company. Just before his sister's death, he promised her that he would dedicate the rest of his life to improving the level of treatment for cancer patients.

He plans to launch another start-up that will focus on this topic. However, unlike Gliimps (and subsequent work at Apple), he wants to focus on the issue more in depth. He allegedly missed that at Apple. According to him, Apple can help more than a billion people on this planet in its way, but it will do so with means that (according to him) lack the necessary depth. His planned project will never reach such a wide population scope, but all efforts will be of a much deeper nature. However, he hopes that he will not say goodbye to Apple's activities in the healthcare sector and that they will perhaps meet sometime in the future, because Apple is serious about the development in this segment and its efforts certainly do not end in the current state.

Source: 9to5mac

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