Modern Healthcare January 26, 2018
After months of rumors, Apple made a jump into the electronic health records game, allowing patients to aggregate their records on their iPhones. The move could effectively pressure EHR vendors to open up access to patients’ digital records.
“This creates a high-profile and instant demand for the EHRs to provide this information to patients,” said John Kelly, principal business adviser for software firm Edifecs. “It’s a way for the patient to become an agent of interoperability.”
On Thursday, Apple began allowing patients of select healthcare organizations to gather their records from those organizations in one place: the Health app on their iPhones.
This move will force EHR vendors to provide access to their data through open application programming interfaces, as...
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