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Why Apple’s Health Records could be a big deal

Why Apple’s Health Records could be a big deal

6 years ago
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https://medium.com/@KanadeMD/why-apples-health-records-could-be-a-big-deal-5209f1e38bf2

In the first season of House, M.D., the episode Histories begins with an unconscious middle-aged homeless woman being admitted with nothing more than a puzzling twitch to go on. While his team launches into listing all kinds of conditions that might explain the unconsciousness and the twitch, House makes a crucial yet basic observation.

“Who is she?”, he asks. “The only thing we know for sure about Jane Doe is that her name isn’t Jane Doe. Which means no medical history, allergies, medications, previous diagnoses, treatment, we have no baseline, no context for medical treatment”.