Two particularly exciting aspects of this announcement:
(1) Hospitals include more than one EHR vendor (both Epic and Cerner), which shows multi-vendor interoperability.
(2) Apple is using a leading healthcare standards organization (HL7)'s clinical data specification (FHIR, or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), which is a huge win, and will hopefully increase adoption and usage of this open standard by provider organizations.
(1) Hospitals include more than one EHR vendor (both Epic and Cerner), which shows multi-vendor interoperability.
(2) Apple is using a leading healthcare standards organization (HL7)'s clinical data specification (FHIR, or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), which is a huge win, and will hopefully increase adoption and usage of this open standard by provider organizations.