Healthcare DIVE April 2, 2018
Jeff Byers

Dive Brief:

  • Nearly 40 health systems have partnered with Apple to contribute medical records to the tech company’s updated Health Records section for the iPhone.
  • The new records section — which is still in beta mode — was announced in January. It allows customers to view their medical records with the Health app. Twelve health systems, including heavy hitters like Geisinger, Johns Hopkins Medicine and MedStar Health, were name-dropped as partners at the time of the release.
  • Apple has now made the feature available to anyone who updates their phone’s iOS software to the latest version.

Personal health records have had a spotty history, with limited uptake, but the...

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Topics: Apps, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Technology, Wearables
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