Healthcare IT Today November 13, 2019
Anne Zieger

A few months ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook made an amazing claim.

During his September appearance on CNBC’s Mad Money, he suggested that while Apple’s hardly going to stop doing other things, healthcare may represent the brass ring. “If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question: ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’ it will be about health,” he said.

This isn’t coming completely from left field. According to Cook, on a trailing basis Apple’s revenue from wearables is already 50% more than iPod revenues at their peak. That’s a pretty serious business by even the biggest tech company’s standards, and while it’s obviously facing massive competition in the wearables space, it...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Wearables
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