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There is one industry where Apple can make a lot of money, and nobody is noticing it: healthcare. One of the biggest problems holding the inevitable healthcare
by gtrubetskoy 10y ago
There is one industry where Apple can make a lot of money, and nobody is noticing it: healthcare. One of the biggest problems holding the inevitable healthcare disruption from happening is security - whom will you trust to keep a record of your heart rate or whatever? I'd pick Apple over any other provider because of the hardware innovations with the security enclave chips, etc, as well as insistence that security does not need to be sacrificed in order to make data useful.
- petra 10y agoMost of the healthcare dollars goes to poor, elderly - who have much more chronic health issues. The iPhone isn't strong in that demogrpahic, due to economic reasons(source: a post by a health IT guy) .
- mst 10y agoI believe Apple are partnering with healthcare providers since the savings in care costs make it worth subsidising the phones. Or, at least, that's the theory; I'm not informed enough to say if it's going to work.