At WWDC this month, Apple announced new health sharing features that allow users to share their health records and patient-generated data with family, caregivers, or their healthcare provider.  On today's HIMSSCast, Michael Abrams, managing partner at Numerof & Associates, joins host Jonah Comstock to discuss the news and how it fits in the larger context of the healthcare system.

Talking points:

• Context for Apple’s latest health records announcement
• The impact of the new Apple capabilities
• How Apple is set up against the competition
• Apple’s ecosystem play
• Are patients ready to own and control their health data?
• Are physicians ready for patient-generated health data?
• Injecting coaches and other stakeholders to fill the data usage gap
• Wellness, prevention, and systemic incentives
• Do tech companies see value-based care on the horizon?
• The rise of the "payvider"
• Technology and the bottom line

More about this episode:

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