Resource Reuters reports that Apple is in talks with various medical institutions throughout the United States with respect to the integration of its new platform HealthKit. The report refers to institutions such as Mount Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, John Hopkins, Allscripts, and others. Apple wants to platform and application HealthKit Health medical staff used to store data about the physical condition and health of patients. According to the company, the doctors will be able to use the available data to improve the diagnosis and treatment process. Apple is also keen to work with a supplier of electronic medical records Epic Systems, to integrate its software and services.
The report says that Apple has faced the problem of confidentiality violations in the field of data storage on the health of users. Health and application platform for developers HealthKit were presented at WWDC 2014 along with a new version of the operating system iOS 8. Annex Health information will be stored on the physical condition and health of the user, collected from all handheld devices and applications companion.
