Apple's latest health technology is a game changer and many Florida hospitals are participating.
I'm a fan of technology when it makes life better. Some of the best and certainly important advances in technology in recent years have come in healthcare. While most healthcare technology advancements have been on the healthcare service providers end, we have had great products like smartwatches that have enabled people to have meaningful health information. I've added 20-30 minutes of sleep per night since I began using data from my Fitbit for example. We've also had examples of Apple Watches alerting people of cardiovascular events literally saving their lives. That stuffs all good but what we're now going to have available to us is an even bigger deal.
One of the newer features that are now reaching critical mass is the Apple Health records feature. If you've ever tried to pull all of your health records together you know what a pain that can be. What's worse is when it's potentially dangerous. The Apple Health records app allows you to pull all of your health records into the app. Fully integrating your information in one place. That's huge for you and potentially a health service provider who's attempting to treat you. The key is that the health service provider integrates with Apple's health technology. After several new additions, many hospitals in Florida are doing so. These are the five that are currently active: Adventist, BayCare, Better Me Healthcare, Cleveland Clinic, Tampa General Hospital
If you use any of those providers or any others out of state, you can pull all of your records. They will be accessible and easy to understand on your Apple device.
This is the complete list of providers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208647
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