HealthIT Answers July 22, 2021
Industry Expert

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.

In the US, Apple commands about 50% of the smartphone market share. At the same time, Apple is dominating the rapidly emerging smartwatch market. We are living in...

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