Politico took the latest crack at gazing into the opaque ball, trying to figure out what Apple might be up to. In a story published Tuesday afternoon, Politico reported that the tech giant recently deleted a job listing seeking a lawyer specializing in healthcare data privacy and FDA compliance. That could mean that someone’s been hired.
Already in the Apple fold are nearly 100 employees with experience in healthcare or “with significant medical backgrounds,” Politico reported, citing a review of LinkedIn page. According to that story:
The publication also referenced a Bloomberg story from last week, which said Cupertino, California-based Apple was looking to add clinical decision support to its HealthKit health information platform. HealthKit might serve as an interoperability tool in the future, Bloomberg reported.
Bloomberg also suggested Apple may interested in developing EHRs, though it seems the business news service misinterpreted what health IT insiders consider to be EHRs. Politico did report that 10 of Apple’s health employees have “EHR backgrounds.”
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The Bloomberg story did reference Apple’s purchase of Gliimpse in August. That story called Gliimpse “a startup that built software to pull electronic health records from different databases and in different formats, then store them in one place.” MedCity News called it an untethered personal health record, a field littered with failures.
But Gliimpse seems like just one piece of a vision that Apple hasn’t publicly discussed in more than vague generalities.
In recent weeks, Apple has hired Dr. Mike Evans, a digital health guru and YouTube star from Canada. The company also reportedly set new, more-stringent requirements for iOS app developers that could have a bigger impact on digital health than any potential EHR.
Date: October 01, 2016