Healthcare Informatics August 6, 2018
In the last few weeks, nine more health systems have signed on to support Apple’s new “Health Records” initiative.
The new institutions were announced on Twitter by Ricky Bloomfield, M.D., who is working at Apple as a clinical and health informatics lead.
In January, Apple announced that it would be testing the Health Records feature out with 12 hospitals, inclusive of some of the most prominent healthcare institutions in the U.S. Then in March, Apple tripled the number of health systems participating, from 12 to 39, and announced that the new capability was available to all iPhone users with the latest iOS 11.3 update. Now, as of an Aug. 2 update from Apple, approximately 80 provider institutions are on board...