| If I want, I can get access to all sorts of things from my medical provider that I’m not qualified to interpret. Just by connecting Apple Health to my health care system, I can see every lab result, most of which I’m not qualified to interpret. My brother had a CT scan, and upon request, got a DVD with the scan data and a viewer for that data. If my healthcare provider prevented me from seeing this info, I’d find another provider. Getting back to the core question: is it surprising? I don’t think it’d be surprising in the consumer or enterprise spaces where lock-in is a feature. But I don’t think that automatically extends to healthcare, where such restrictions are extremely problematic, and threaten my ability to get care from my provider of choice. (And to clarify, I don’t think this is good or acceptable for consumer/enterprise products either, but the implications there are different, where I might just choose another vendor - a choice I might not have for medical devices). |