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This just isn't realistic. No hospital EMR is going to act as a proxy for a thousand customer iOS devices hooked up to the WiFi or whatever. Just imagine the

This just isn't realistic. No hospital EMR is going to act as a proxy for a thousand customer iOS devices hooked up to the WiFi or whatever. Just imagine the doctor trying to pull up your chart, and failing because you forgot to charge your phone. Yeah, no. Or, even better, you get admitted to the ER in critical condition and now nobody can pull up your blood type or even enter your medical records, because you don't have your phone on you. Not going to happen.

9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
Non-emergency intake procedures would be a great point in the workflow to get the authorization handshake out of the way. In emergency situations, getting medical records isn’t even a guarantee, today. If all a paramedic had to do was plug in a dead phone and wait 15 minutes to get access to medical records that would otherwise require potentially hours and fax machines, it might be a tic in the acceptability matrix, there. Using the device to manage your data, with whatver access controls you are allowed, doesn’t necessitate that the data be solely stored on the device. Using notifications and other operating system functions ought to cover a wide variety of workflow needs. The device would be able to take the place of any signature machines, on-premises, for example. Finally, as it is today, you can configure iOS and watchOS to display emergency medical information even while locked. Let alone any future enhancements that could really make a dent in the overall healthcare software ecosystem. edit: how environmentally sustainable it is to make 7+ billion iPhones, is a different topic though
- mwint 4y ago
  There have been ~2B iPhones made. Doesn’t seem like a big deal. Not even an order of magnitude.
  - 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
    I’m not an economist, but I suspect that the supply curve would adjust pretty drastically to even just a doubling of demand, let alone a quadrupling. edit: there probably isn’t even enough readily available physical material for that many batteries. for example, consider the projected difficulties with supply side for the upcoming increase in demand for electric vehicle battery material

9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago

Non-emergency intake procedures would be a great point in the workflow to get the authorization handshake out of the way. In emergency situations, getting medical records isn’t even a guarantee, today. If all a paramedic had to do was plug in a dead phone and wait 15 minutes to get access to medical records that would otherwise require potentially hours and fax machines, it might be a tic in the acceptability matrix, there. Using the device to manage your data, with whatver access controls you are allowed, doesn’t necessitate that the data be solely stored on the device. Using notifications and other operating system functions ought to cover a wide variety of workflow needs. The device would be able to take the place of any signature machines, on-premises, for example. Finally, as it is today, you can configure iOS and watchOS to display emergency medical information even while locked. Let alone any future enhancements that could really make a dent in the overall healthcare software ecosystem. edit: how environmentally sustainable it is to make 7+ billion iPhones, is a different topic though

mwint 4y ago
There have been ~2B iPhones made. Doesn’t seem like a big deal. Not even an order of magnitude.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
  I’m not an economist, but I suspect that the supply curve would adjust pretty drastically to even just a doubling of demand, let alone a quadrupling. edit: there probably isn’t even enough readily available physical material for that many batteries. for example, consider the projected difficulties with supply side for the upcoming increase in demand for electric vehicle battery material