[dangus]

Apple could be planning to make an EHR system, like Epic and Cerner. Google is supposedly working on one, too. (I don’t think the article really arrives on that possibility)

Most electronic health record systems are really terrible software, and they’re also very profitable pieces of software. Google, Apple, and Microsoft are probably the only companies with enough money and software engineering talent to start from scratch and disrupt that space.

Some interesting further reading: https://medium.com/design-and-tech-co/how-google-ehr-could-f...

[npunt]

Rather than go through the trouble of entering a new complicated market building an EHR to unseat some very entrenched players and force retraining of millions of healthcare workers, which would be relatively antithetical to Apple’s consumer-not-enterprise approach, they could focus behind the scenes efforts on data portability and interoperability via EHR customers (hospitals) so that those EHRs worked better with Apple Health.

You really don’t want to build an EHR if you can avoid it.