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Re:The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare by nradov on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:33PM (#18078914)
Today the primary driver for clinical systems interoperability is federal government regulations (Meaningful Use, HITECH Act, MACRA, etc) plus requirements from payers (insurers). Apple's support for HL7 FHIR has also been a positive influence in convincing more provider organizations to open up public APIs, but that's really for iPhone / iPad devices and not directly related to wearables.

EHR vendors are actively working to enhance their applications to cope with new data streams coming in from consumer wearables as well as connected home healthcare devices such as smart scales and blood pressure monitors.

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Re:The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare by kendallpark on Thursday September 27, 2018 @02:24AM (#18082441)
> Apple's support for HL7 FHIR has also been a positive influence in convincing more provider organizations to open up public APIs

Is this actually the case? I haven't heard any talk of this at my institution, or on r/medicine.

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Re:The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare by nradov on Thursday September 27, 2018 @09:17AM (#18084126)
Apple has signed up a number of prominent provider organizations but it's certainly not universal. Federal regulation will probably be necessary to get that data opened up everywhere.
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