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Plus, a significant chunk of Walter Isaacon’s “Steve Jobs” focused on how disjointed medical care is, how Jobs worked to overcome that by insisting medical prof

by mch82 8y ago

Plus, a significant chunk of Walter Isaacon’s “Steve Jobs” focused on how disjointed medical care is, how Jobs worked to overcome that by insisting medical professionals coordinate his care, and how he hoped that he’d be one of the last to die from the kind of cancer he had if he didn’t make it (because he felt it should have been treatable if care had been properly coordinated).

mimixco 8y ago
If there was ever an "enterprise" business, it's healthcare. In it's entire history, Apple has never made any enterprise products. They're a phone and music company, and now they're going to save people's lives. More Kool-Aid, anyone?
- npunt 8y ago
  You're so missing the bigger picture. 'Healthcare' is just a subset of 'health'. Go back to first principles: #1 people have always cared about their personal health and have always been willing to spend a lot of time and money to improve it, and individuals are ultimately the ones responsible for their health. #2 Apple is a computer company, and computers are the primary means of personal empowerment that exists today. What you pay attention to, how you organize your thoughts, and what you do is increasingly influenced and mediated by computer interfaces and data. Combine #1 and #2 and you get an increasingly powerful personal health market that is on a collision course with the healthcare market. Ask any doctor - patients are more informed than ever, and how medicine is practiced is changing as a result. This isn't news. The other dynamics you're not considering are that healthcare is much much larger than whatever enterprise tech deployments exist today. Sure, Apple isn't going to sign a service contract to customize an EMR for some hospital's specific needs, but that's such a tiny part of what Health and Healthcare are.
  - mimixco 8y ago
    Those are great arguments, but I still don't agree. If you don't know you're fat, a watch won't help you. If you don't get off the couch, a watch won't fix that. Fitness trackers existed before Apple got involved and packaged them up in pretty watch cases. I don't think that people's needs and desires for healthcare can be translated into profits for Apple. It's ok if Tim Cook believes that; I just don't.
jazoom 8y ago
It's possible I read incorrect information, but I thought he died from that cancer because he spent time mucking around with "magical" remedies before trying the medically-proven treatments. Also, pancreatic cancer has a terrible mortality rate, so it's possible he would have died soon regardless.

by mch82 8y ago

mimixco 8y ago

If there was ever an "enterprise" business, it's healthcare. In it's entire history, Apple has never made any enterprise products. They're a phone and music company, and now they're going to save people's lives. More Kool-Aid, anyone?

npunt 8y ago
You're so missing the bigger picture. 'Healthcare' is just a subset of 'health'. Go back to first principles: #1 people have always cared about their personal health and have always been willing to spend a lot of time and money to improve it, and individuals are ultimately the ones responsible for their health. #2 Apple is a computer company, and computers are the primary means of personal empowerment that exists today. What you pay attention to, how you organize your thoughts, and what you do is increasingly influenced and mediated by computer interfaces and data. Combine #1 and #2 and you get an increasingly powerful personal health market that is on a collision course with the healthcare market. Ask any doctor - patients are more informed than ever, and how medicine is practiced is changing as a result. This isn't news. The other dynamics you're not considering are that healthcare is much much larger than whatever enterprise tech deployments exist today. Sure, Apple isn't going to sign a service contract to customize an EMR for some hospital's specific needs, but that's such a tiny part of what Health and Healthcare are.
- mimixco 8y ago
  Those are great arguments, but I still don't agree. If you don't know you're fat, a watch won't help you. If you don't get off the couch, a watch won't fix that. Fitness trackers existed before Apple got involved and packaged them up in pretty watch cases. I don't think that people's needs and desires for healthcare can be translated into profits for Apple. It's ok if Tim Cook believes that; I just don't.

jazoom 8y ago

It's possible I read incorrect information, but I thought he died from that cancer because he spent time mucking around with "magical" remedies before trying the medically-proven treatments. Also, pancreatic cancer has a terrible mortality rate, so it's possible he would have died soon regardless.