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I agree. Apple did refer to major healthcare partners but my impression was that this was just to enable users to share fitness and personal monitoring data wit

I agree. Apple did refer to major healthcare partners but my impression was that this was just to enable users to share fitness and personal monitoring data with their healthcare providers (which the healthcare provider could then add to the EHR). I saw no suggestion that Apple were aiming to attack the professional/enterprise EHR market. I don't know if there could be a progressive expansion of capability and then an attack on the EHR market but Apple hasn't signalled that and it isn't currently intended for that.

karmelapple 12y ago
I'm sure Apple is aware of the mess of regulations they would encounter if they advertised the Health app and HealthKit to be a hub for all of your medical data. Not only would the connections between your iDevice and a hospital potentially fall under scrutiny by a variety of health-related state and federal agencies, but the complete iOS to iCloud connection and what it sends and receives would probably start getting heavy analysis and would need to prove to bureaucracies precisely what Apple and third party vendors do and do not transmit. There be bureaucratic dragons. Agreed with the other commenters here, although I do appreciate the original blog post for pointing out concrete examples of backwards technology use in health care. It is a good reminder that pretty much every industry (perhaps outside of tech companies with tech customers interoperating with each other) has major dysfunction and underutilization of current technologies.