WIRED February 19, 2018
Aneesh Chopra and Shafiq Rab

Imagine if Apple further opens up Apple Health so it no longer serves as the destination, but a conduit that can help guide patients through decisions to better manage their health.

IN LATE JANUARY, Apple previewed an iOS feature that would allow consumers to access their electronic health records on their phones. Skeptics said the move was a decade too late given a similar (and failed) effort from Google. Optimists argued that Apple was capable of translating health data into something meaningful for consumers.

But the announcement portends great things for consumers and the app developers seeking to serve them, from our perspectives as the former US chief technology officer under President Obama, and as an early adopter of the...

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