Healthcare IT News January 26, 2018
Integration into a clinical workflow is only way to provide value and this app doesn’t offer that yet but many are hopeful Apple can do it.
Nothing stirs up social media more than a move by a major tech player in the healthcare space. The responses range from, “Finally, our hope has arrived!” to “Zzzzzzz, we’ve seen this before.”
Both are well-reasoned responses, of course. Tech players do have a tendency to change the status quo; they also conduct a crazy number of pilots, which adds to their institutional experience but doesn’t change much in the end.
[Also: Apple to launch Health Records app with HL7’s FHIR specifications at 12 hospitals]
Apple is the latest tech player jumping into healthcare....