Blumenthal: Apple’s Health Care Pact ‘Might Actually Disrupt the Industry’

Apple’s recent announcement that 13 prestigious U.S. health care systems have agreed to allow the company to download their patients’ electronic health data, with permission, onto its devices may not have gotten the attention it deserves. David Blumenthal, M.D., and Aneesh Chopra write in Harvard Business Review that the new pact has the potential to “liberate health care data for game-changing new uses, including empowering patients as never before.”