Google announces health management service "Google Fit" that can aggregate information from multiple applications and devices

A conference for developers held on June 26, 2014Google I / O 2014"Health management platform to be introduced to the next Android"Google Fit"Was announced.

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Erie Powers, product manager for Google Play, appeared in the event venue.


Powers announced is Google's health management platform "Google Fit". A big applause blew up from the hall at the time of presentation.


Google Fit is a platform that can aggregate and manage health data from various applications, smartphones, wearable devices, a mirror-like service that reflects the health of the user.


For example, Google Fit is a diet application "Noom"You can provide user's health data totaled from other applications and wearable devices.


Wearable devices and ...


It aggregates the data aggregated from smartphones and tells us what is necessary for the user's health appropriately.


Companies that have a partner agreement with Google Fit are adidas · ASUS · htc · Withings · Motorola · Nike.


Attempts to manage health with smartphones and wearable devices are based on Apple's WWDC 2014,HealthKit"Samsung Electronics announced the application that can be used on its own device"S Health 3.0It is a market where big companies are concentrating, such as expanding ". From now on, attention will be gathered how Google enters into that market with "Google Fit".