I Think This Is Pretty Big News And Is A Pointer To Things To Come.

This appeared last week:Apple in Talks to Give Veterans Access to Electronic Medical Records Under plans being discussed, Apple would create software allowing veterans to transfer health records to iPhones By Ben Kesling and Tripp Mickle Updated Nov. 21, 2018 3:28 p.m. ET Apple Inc. AAPL -0.05% is in discussions with the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide portable electronic health records to military veterans, a partnership that would simplify patients ’ hospital visits and allow the technology giant to tap millions of new customers, according to people familiar with the effort and emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.Under the plans being discussed, Apple would create special software tools allowing the VA’s estimated nine million veter ans currently enrolled in the system to transfer their health records to iPhones and provide engineering support to the agency. Apple in January announced its foray into the electronic-records field with a feature that allows patients to... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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