MedCity News September 11, 2017
Stephanie Baum

As Apple prepares to pull the wraps off the latest model of its iPhone tomorrow, CEO Tim Cook shared his excitement about’s Apple’s healthcare applications and the role it will play in the future of the company in an interview with Fortune.

Although Apple has indicated its interest in healthcare before, Cook noted that the company is particularly interested in medical activity.

We’re extremely interested in this area. And, yes, it is a business opportunity. If you look at it, medical health activity is the largest or second-largest component of the economy, depending on which country in the world you’re dealing with. And it hasn’t been constructed in a way where the focus at the device level is making great...

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