MobiHealth News June 11, 2021
Laura Lovett

The feature lets patients share their user-generated data with clinicians and family members. The team at Cerner says this is one step toward patients controlling their data.

Earlier this week, Apple announced a new health sharing feature that gives patients the reins in sharing consumer-generated health data with their doctors, family and friends.

Apple has been working on giving patients more access to their data for years. In 2018, the company rolled out Health Records on iOS, which aggregates existing user-generated data in their Health app with data from their EHR – if the user is a patient at a participating hospital.

This new feature turns the tables – instead of patients accessing medical data generated by the health system,...

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