Commonwealth Fund March 23, 2018
David Blumenthal, M.D. and Aneesh Chopra

  • Apple’s new pact with 13 leading U.S. health care systems to download patient data on the company’s devices has the potential to disrupt the industry
  • Giving patients ready access to their own electronic health data with the help of facilitators like Apple “creates almost unfathomable opportunities to improve health care and health”

An announcement on January 24 didn’t get the large amount of attention it deserved: Apple and 13 prominent health systems, including prestigious centers like Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania, disclosed an agreement that would allow Apple to download onto its various devices the electronic health data of those systems’ patients — with patients’ permission, of course.

It could herald...

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