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Focus on consumer health over govt medical record infra: Sumbul Desai

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NEW DELHI : Consumer-tech major Apple will continue to focus on the consumers’ personal health and fitness features on Apple Watch and iPhone, instead of tapping into governments’ health information infrastructure, and medical records, worldwide.

In an interview, Sumbul Desai, vice president, Health, Apple said it is not looking to transform medical records but yearns to help consumers gain more insights into their own health.

It is also looking to work with researchers and startups in India to further its health efforts. Edited excerpts: What’s the feedback from the medical community on bridging the gap between consumer-tech and health-tech? We want to provide actionable insights that are grounded in science.

So we spend a lot of time on accuracy, measuring against gold standards, and then actually publishing it. So, when we think about all of our features we develop, our goal is really to publish the data and the accuracy of our features, so that the physician community understands it.

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