{"id":891,"date":"2013-09-20T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=891"},"modified":"2013-09-20T02:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:53:47","slug":"icare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/09\/icare\/","title":{"rendered":"iCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/e685f02bdaa7b79f9342c1dff1ea40ce\/tumblr_mtez559PKX1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2013\/09\/blog2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-893\" alt=\"Medical apps\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2013\/09\/blog2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2013\/09\/blog2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2013\/09\/blog2-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks like Apple is requiring <a title=\"Apple now requires medical apps to provide sources of the information included\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/2013\/09\/19\/medical-apps-need-sources\/\">science-based data<\/a> for their medical apps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--more-->The increasing popularity of apps which diagnose and treat medical issues is causing Apple to enact stricter guidelines.\u00a0<strong>Apple wants developers of medical apps which give consumers drug dosages to cite references<\/strong>. The new requirement is designed to reduce medical misdiagnosis, as well as potential plagiarism, according to a news site Wednesday<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a good first step.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they just have to <strong>create the pseudoscience category and move there all the homeopathy apps<\/strong> and their likes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Apple is requiring science-based data for their medical apps:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[272,273],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apps","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}