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Unless I am misjudging Apple’s intentions, HealthKit looks like it’s another way to keep high-end customers loyal to the iPhone and other Apple products. As such, it’s against Apple’s interests to make HealthKit available on competing platforms like Android or Windows. But for stored medical data to be of any significant use to healthcare providers, it can’t be limited to just A) patients who own iPhones and use HealthKit apps and B) providers with EHRs configured to access those apps.

Jared Sinclair is a registered nurse and developer of successful apps like and more recently . He wrote a detailed blog post on the challenges the medical industry has to share patient data and what means to the healthcare industry. I didn’t know that patients’ data is kept in data silos and that information stored in a vendor’s database cannot be shared with applications developed by the competition.