LinkedIn July 5, 2018
Apple just announced a new capability for health apps: Health Records API. This move is a breakthrough for patient-centered health management, in general; and importantly for people on specialty treatments, this may be a game changer.
What did Apple announce exactly?
At the start of 2018, Apple updated its Health App to centralize patients’ medical data from multiple providers into a single view on their iPhone. Now it announced a new API that builds on this, allowing patients to grant their favorite health apps with access to their personal health records. Apple hopes developers and researchers will “create an ecosystem of apps that use health record data to better manage medications, nutrition plans, diagnosed diseases and more.”
With the patient’s...
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