Patient Engagement April 12, 2019
Sara Heath

Community Health Systems will launch Apple Health Records in 100 of its facilities to promote patient data access and data sharing.

Community Health Systems, Inc., will now offer patients access to Apple Health Records to enable seamless patient data access and data sharing.

Apple Health Records allow patients to plug in multiple health data sources – the patient portal and other apps that produce patient-generated health data – into one digital personal health record. Patients have the power to share this record with their providers, thus becoming the arbiters of patient data sharing.

The rollout, which will begin at 100 CHS hospitals, comes as a part of CHS efforts to improve patient-centered care, according to Lynn Simon, MD, CHS president...

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