Dignity Health’s chief digital officer explains why he thinks Apple can succeed for population health and precision medicine efforts where other PHR launches have not. As a longtime collaborator with Apple since before it even beta-tested its Health Records project, live now at 39 hospitals San Francisco-based Dignity Health is in sync with the iPhone developer’s vision, said Shez Partovi, MD.”We had been working with Apple prior to their initial announcement for some time,” said Partovi, chief digital officer and senior vice president of digital transformation at Dignity Health. “We’d been working with them for a while because we’re aligned in our philosophies of empowering patients by giving them their data.”As part of the Health Records launch, Dignity will leverage HL7’s FHIR standard to securely move patients’ health data from own electronic health record system to the iPhones of patients using iOS 11.3 enabling them manage meds, labs, allergies, conditions and more, and notifying them when the health system makes changes to their health information.

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