CNBC January 29, 2018
Steve Kraus, Bessemer Venture Partners

  • Health investor Steve Kraus says Apple can succeed where other tech companies have failed.
  • And that’s in bringing health records, whether it’s labs, charts or medical imaging, to consumers.
  • Here’s 3 reasons why.

Apple made a big splash in health care circles this past week when it announced that the company is entering the personal health recordspace with Apple Health, a new feature that will interface with electronic health records at a dozen hospitals.

For the past two years, Apple has been making under-the-radar moves to bolster its health care efforts, starting with its 2016 acquisition of a personal health record start-up called Gliimpse Health.

In the wake of the announcement, my Twitter lit up with many proclamations...

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