Healthcare software provider Meditech to support iOS 15 secure sharing
Meditech, a provider of healthcare software, has announced that its platform will support the sharing of health data with doctors and hospitals in iOS 15.
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The inclusion of Health Records will allow iOS 15 users to securely share health-related data with their healthcare providers. Users will be able to pick what data they want to share with physicians and hospitals.
On the healthcare provider side, physicians will be able to see a user's data within a web-based dashboard without needing to sign in to a separate system.
If a user chooses to, they can share data from iPhone, Apple Watch, and a range of third-party apps or accessories. This could allow medical professionals to monitor and analyze trends or changes over time. Meditech says that its system is built for privacy and security. All data is end-to-end encrypted, and will remain secure after transit.
Along with Meditech, Cerner, Allscripts, AthenaHealth, CPSI, and DrChrono will also support secure sharing when it launches in the fall.
Meditech says that current healthcare providers that use its platform will get further details about enrollment in the coming weeks.
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The inclusion of Health Records will allow iOS 15 users to securely share health-related data with their healthcare providers. Users will be able to pick what data they want to share with physicians and hospitals.
On the healthcare provider side, physicians will be able to see a user's data within a web-based dashboard without needing to sign in to a separate system.
If a user chooses to, they can share data from iPhone, Apple Watch, and a range of third-party apps or accessories. This could allow medical professionals to monitor and analyze trends or changes over time. Meditech says that its system is built for privacy and security. All data is end-to-end encrypted, and will remain secure after transit.
Along with Meditech, Cerner, Allscripts, AthenaHealth, CPSI, and DrChrono will also support secure sharing when it launches in the fall.
Meditech says that current healthcare providers that use its platform will get further details about enrollment in the coming weeks.
Follow all of WWDC 2021 with comprehensive AppleInsider coverage of the week-long event from June 7 through June 11, including details on iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, macOS Monterey and more.
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Of course the EHR global market is worth over 30 billion USD so anyone messing with them will have a fight on their hands. I honestly hope Apple can get the Meditech led group of EHRs to actually work together so we, the consumer and payer of medical bills and insurance premiums, can provide accurate and consistent information to medical professionals. This won't be easy because it could mean a reduction in data-entry operators and loss of billing income but that's an excuse not a justifiable reason for not participating.
ref: https://www.ehrinpractice.com/largest-ehr-vendors.html
In Australia there's a push to have all medical records stored centrally; naturally there has been significant pushback from the citizenry with concerns over privacy and security. But the government has a point: the industry has had thirty-plus years to come up with a standard method for storing and sharing health information, and it hasn't happened so government has stepped in.
From a personal point of view having everything on a device I own (with secured backups automatically pushed to a service like iCloud) would be great if my health providers could be granted selective access, but locking in to a single device/data provider is not a good idea for a large population. It may be that Apple's approach becomes a de facto standard that then gets enshrined by an industry standards consortium and other device/OS providers come on board, but there's a lot of detail to be worked out before that happens. It would not surprise me if it's twenty years before we reach some sort of stable ecosystem in this space. Some of the recalcitrance is understandable (money spent on systems is money not spent on treating patients, and we're talking about an industry where people dying is an everyday occurrence so stability and accuracy are paramount) but some of it is just butt-covering and politics.
It's good to see Apple's efforts here, but it's only early days.
For the United States, at least, I think this is a very naive statement.
And I believe part of the reason it's naive lies within what GeorgeBMac lays forth here.
The health insurance industry in the US is in bed with the US government. As much as one might argue that Obama's Affordable Care Act benefitted consumers (which is debatable, having watched it play out), it benefitted health insurance providers far, far, far, more than it did consumers. I've worked in the insurance administration sector for upwards of twenty years, and the number of subscribers to health insurance plans skyrocketed into the stratosphere with the ACA's individual mandate. Whether the payment for those subscribers came from public or private funds, insurance companies reaped a huge benefit.
I'm sure that sounds very tin foil hat-ish to some, but it's my observation.