Photoillustration: Jonah Comstock, photo courtesy Michael Abrams
At WWDC this month, Apple announced new health-sharing features that allow users to share their health records and patient-generated data with family, caregivers, or their healthcare provider. On today's HIMSSCast, Michael Abrams, managing partner at Numerof & Associates, joins host Jonah Comstock to discuss the news and how it fits in the larger context of the healthcare system.
Talking points:
- Context for Apple’s latest health records announcement.
- The impact of the new Apple capabilities.
- How Apple is set up against the competition.
- Apple’s ecosystem play.
- Are patients ready to own and control their health data?
- Are physicians ready for patient-generated health data?
- Injecting coaches and other stakeholders to fill the data usage gap.
- Wellness, prevention and systemic incentives.
- Do tech companies see value-based care on the horizon?
- The rise of the "payvider."
- Technology and the bottom line.
More about this episode:
Apple adds walking stability, family and provider health sharing, and more at WWDC 2021
Apple's new health data sharing feature is part of the patient-controlled data trend
Apple Health Records launches out of beta with 39 health systems
How patient-generated data contributes to clinician burnout
The real-time health system: Adapting healthcare to the new normal
