Apple Has Plans to Copy EHR Records to iPhones and Apple Watches

A few weeks ago, I posted a note about"Big Tech" trying to enter the healthcare market (see: What Are the Consequences of Big Tech Entering the Healthcare Market?). Here's a quote from that note:My own view about the future of Big Tech in healthcare, in addition to the equity deals, is that it will focus on healthcare wearables....The reason for this is that personal devices ...are well understood by the Big Tech companies, certainly Apple, and they know how to market them to consumers.What they probably do not understand is the mindset of healthcare executives and their general lack of understanding of IT accompanied by their continuing insistence on control of patient options. The attraction of selling wearables to healthcare consumers is that the latter will, in time, begin to lobby aggressively for integration of healthcare data into hospital databases. Hospitals executives, in collaboration with EHR executives, have been in a"go slow" mode regarding interoperability of EHR databases and the integration of external data into them. When patients begin to lobby aggressively for such changes, it will be harder for the hospital executives to say no. Now comes news from CNBC that Apple has plans to enable consumers to download EHR records to their iPhones or Apple Watches (see:Apple will let you keep your medical records on your iPhone or Apple Watch). Below is an excerpt from the article:[Apple]...is releasing the test version of a ne...
Source: Lab Soft News - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Information Technology Medical Consumerism Source Type: blogs