Factbox: Hospitals launching pilots of Apple health tech
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s healthcare technology is spreading quickly among major U.S. hospitals, showing early promise as a way for doctors to monitor patients remotely and lower costs.
Fourteen of 23 top hospitals contacted by Reuters said they have rolled out a pilot program of Apple’s HealthKit service – which acts as a repository for patient-generated health information like blood pressure, weight or heart rate – or are in talks to do so.
Below are the 23 hospitals contacted by Reuters.
CONDUCTING PILOT OF APPLE HEALTH TECH
Ochsner Medical Center     Â
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Mayo Clinic
Duke University HospitalÂ
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
UCLAÂ HealthÂ
Cedars-SinaiÂ
Geisinger Health System Â
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Â
CONSIDERING PILOT
University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente
Cleveland Clinic
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterÂ
UPMC University of PittsburghÂ
NOT PLANNING OR EVALUATING APPLE HEALTH TECH PILOT
Massachusetts General HospitalÂ
University of Washington Medical CenterÂ
New York Presbyterian HospitalÂ
NYU Langone Medical CenterÂ
NO COMMENT OR NO RESPONSE
Johns Hopkins HospitalÂ
Mount Sinai HospitalÂ
Brigham and Women’s HospitalÂ
MD Anderson Cancer CenterÂ
Northwestern Memorial HospitalÂ
(Reporting By Christina Farr)
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