Ibm-Apple Deal: Healthcare Ios

Dan Pelino, a IBM general manager said,
. . . we will build on work under way already with Apple,
. . . with the iPhone and iPad" for healthcare applications, and
. . . IBM MobileFirst for iOS platform.

The marriage of "Siri" and "Watson" also has great potential in healthcare,
. . . given physician interest in hands-free computing and
. . . health data analysis as one of the prime applications of
. . . IBM's cognitive computing system. According to the Blackbook survey,
. . . 68% of healthcare providers use an iPhone for professional purposes, and
. . . with IBM's help iOS can also become the dominant mobile operating system
. . . for enterprise applications in healthcare, Pelino said.

"This really is a case of 'together, better,'
. . . Apple was not in this space, just like IBM hasn't been in mobile devices."
. . . IBM has the largest computer security practice in the world,
. . . allowing it to offer healthcare organizations
. . . the assurance that their iOS applications will be secure and
. . . in compliance with HIPAA privacy protections, he said.

In the future of healthcare, "nobody will ever be discharged from care,"
. . . Pelino said, meaning apps and mobile health monitoring
. . . will follow them home from the hospital.
A pregnant woman might do an ultrasound scan on herself using an iPhone and
. . . have to visit the doctor's office only if the scan shows something worrisome,
. . . he said.
Yet such consumer healthcare applications will be make patient privacy and
. . . data security challenging, he said.

07-21-2014 Source:  IBM-Apple Deal: Healthcare iOS