Apple HealthKit blood glucose

Apple to add glucose tracking back into Health

By Aditi Pai 06:32 am December 19, 2014

Apple's newest software update, iOS 8.2, will bring back HealthKit's blood glucose tracking feature, according to a report from 9to5mac. The feature was removed from Health in October because the app only offered one unit of measurement for blood glucose, mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter), even though many countries use another measure, mmol/L (millimoles per liter). “If you measure your blood...

Apple makes another blood glucose tracking units goof

By Brian Dolan 08:26 am October 21, 2014

For the second time since it announced its HealthKit plans, Apple has made a mistake related to blood glucose measurement units. Last week the company pulled the glucose tracking feature out of its Health app for users in some countries where glucose is tracked in millimoles per liter (mmol/L) and not milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) like they are in the US. "If you measure your blood glucose...