Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone<br />“It’s really strange to me that you can easily pull up all of your spending record on your credit card going back a long way in every detail, yet your health is way more important<br />and you don’t have easy access to your health information,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer.<br />“We want to make sure that consumers are empowered with information about their health.”<br />Tech giants including Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, are going head-to-head to<br />obtain a larger slice of American health care spending, which amounts to more than $3 trillion annually<br />It will enable users to transfer clinical data — like cholesterol levels<br />and lists of medications prescribed by their doctors — directly from their medical providers to their iPhones, potentially streamlining how Americans gain access to some health information.<br />A dozen medical institutions across the United States — including Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore<br />and Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles — have agreed to participate in the beta version of the new feature.
