HealthsystemCIO.com January 30, 2018
To quote Yogi Berra, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” Or so it seems.
Last week, Apple made a big announcement that excited many in our industry. They have enlisted two of the largest medical records companies, Epic Systems and Cerner, as well as Athenahealth, and a number of respected healthcare institutions, including Johns Hopkins Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Penn Medicine and UC San Diego Health. And according to their press release, they have built their newly updated Health Records app based on FHIR, which is the interoperability standard for transferring electronic medical records.
This is all good very good news. I might add that Apple has built an undeniable reputation on their ability to create beautifully designed and highly intuitive software...