Apple is adding a feature that would allow people to share their health data with trusted contacts, such as their doctor or a family member. For example, they could share heart rate data collected by an Apple Watch.
The partnership was previously announced but now all veterans who get their care from any VA hospital and use iPhones can see that data alongside other health data in Apple's Health Records section of the Health app.
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While the end of HealthVault is admission of failure for the company's initial forays into health, Microsoft has refocused its efforts in the industry toward the enterprise market.
Burke joined the Mountain View, California-based chronic disease management company late last year after spending more than two decades at EHR giant Cerner.
Apple's partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is an effort by the technology giant to push forward on its personal health record initiative with the largest integrated healthcare system in the country.
Patients across the entire University of California Health network are now being given the ability to download their medical data onto their Apple smartphones.
Health care professionals can refer patients to the best options for diagnostic imaging covered by Medicare to give more people the medical assistance they need without extra financial stress.
A survey of UC San Diego Apple Health Records users found that 96 percent respondents said it was easy to link their mobile device to the personal health record program.
Ahead of speaking at MedCity ENGAGE next month, Kelly Summers, Dignity Health's senior director of digital care transformation, discussed her organization's participation in the Apple Health Records program.
Through a new integration with Apple Health Records, the company's physicians are able to access a patient's medical history with the Heal OnCall iPad app, speeding up the data sharing process and better informing decisions by the care team.