Becker's Healthcare November 16, 2018
Jessica Kim Cohen

In January, Apple launched a project to bring information from patient health records — such as allergies, immunizations and lab results — into the iPhone’s Health app. Since then, more than 100 hospitals and clinics have signed on to the initiative.

Apple uses application programming interfaces, known as APIs, provided by participating hospitals and clinics to facilitate its data exchange, creating a direct connection between the provider’s EHR and the patient’s iPhone. The project’s APIs — or sets of protocols that help different applications communicate with one another — are based on FHIR, a popular interoperability standards framework used in healthcare.

To help hospitals and clinics go live on the health records feature, Apple is also collaborating with...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, EMR / EHR, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), mHealth, Technology
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