Medscape July 3, 2019
Ken Terry

Apple has announced that it will allow any US healthcare organization with a compatible electronic health record (EHR) to register with its mobile Health Records feature, according to a tweet from Ricky Bloomfield, MD, Apple’s clinical and health informatics lead.

This will allow patients to securely and privately download their EHR data to a personal health record (PHR) on their iPhone after presenting their credentials to a practice’s or a hospital’s patient portal.

Apple beta tested its Health Records app in 12 healthcare systems early this year, and it added 27 more organizations to the pilot in March. Currently, about 300 healthcare organizations, labs, and clinics with over 6500 locations across the country have registered in the app, an Apple...

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