HealthIT Answers July 22, 2021
By Greg Kefer, Chief Marketing Officer, LifeLink Inc.
At the recent World Wide Developer Conference, Apple announced a number of improvements to its Health app. One improvement was an operating system update that makes it easier for patients to exchange data with provider EHR systems, regardless of whether the provider supports Apple’s Health Records feature. It’s still in the early stages and may require a fair amount of manual work by patients to fully connect their data to the Health app, but you can see the vision. And, let’s not forget, this is Apple.
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