Modern Healthcare April 14, 2018
The race to create a user-friendly, mobile health portal is on.
Traditional electronic health record vendors like Epic and Cerner are being challenged by a heavyweight in consumerism: Apple.
“‘Mobile’ implies some degree of portability, and ‘portal’ implies that you have a window onto something—in this case, understanding your health,” said Charu Juneja, director of business and behavioral design at the Dell Medical School’s Design Institute for Health. “From what I’ve seen, nothing has done that.”
The mobile experience between platforms varies greatly in form and function.
Apple’s Health app will be familiar to any iOS user since it contains hallmarks of a contemporary Apple app: simple icons, varied type weights and sizes,...