Becker's Healthcare September 20, 2021
Hannah Mitchell

Apple iPhone’s latest software update, iOS 15, launched Sept. 20 and will allow users to share their Health app data with their physicians, according to a Sept. 20 report by The Verge.

Five things to know:

  1. Apple unveiled the health record-sharing initiative June 7. Patients can share data collected on their Health app, such as heart rate and time exercising.
  2. Six EHR companies are participating in the launch, including Cerner, Allscripts, Meditech and DrChrono. Any hospital that uses Cerner’s EHR can implement tools to be interoperable with Apple’s health-sharing feature. However, they will have to balance implementing these tools with COVID-19 surges, Sam Lambson, vice president of interoperability at Cerner, told The Verge.
  3. “Once...

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