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APPLE PHONE COLLECTS MEDICAL DATA: NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN ANALYSIS AND CLAIMS
New consumer technology is helping to predict and prevent major health events. Medical devices have long assisted with medical evaluations, but new wearable consumer devices are now collecting data, evaluating and storing data, and identifying medical symptoms or side effects like diabetes, heart attack and stroke. The new consumer devices are transforming medical data collection by remotely monitoring key health vitals or keeping track of patients with chronic diseases and their medications, which is critical to patient health, and recording serious side effects or adverse events.
The new Apple Watch is an example of the new tool available to consumers, doctors, healthcare companies and lawyers to detect health issues and record problems. Some view the rapid advances in consumer devices related to healthcare as presenting improved ability to examine drug side effects, stroke, heart attack and conditions.
New consumer devices monitor, evaluate, store, and transmit information like never. Products like Apple watch mark transformative change in healthcare, and potentially for legal claims related to medical products causing adverse events.
Access to, and evaluation of, critical data about health, medications, and individual data is a critical component of building a more complete, more detailed, and more responsive profile of health of individual claimants. New products and services like the Apple watch are becoming available to consumers to improve their interface and information to doctors, hospital, pharmacies, and lawyers in the event of a claim arising from a healthcare product, adverse events, or other side effect.
By fully integrating expanded consumer data, medical information, and analytics with digitized pharmacy data and medical records, new ways are opened to engage, and new ways to advance claims through broader information, greater analytic capacities, and deeper collaboration with medical facilti5rs and products, medical professionals, and medical records.