The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare
Pardon my cynicism, but it strikes me either as naivety or fanboy-ism to label the Apple Watch as the &quot;tipping point&quot; for healthcare tech. Wearables for consumer health that touch on actual healthcare in a few areas are a pretty low hanging, low yield fruit if you want to talk about &#x27;disrupting&#x27; the industry. Maybe I&#x27;ll eat my words in a few years when wearables somehow force EHR systems to be interoperable or tackle some of the other massive issues in healthcare tech. I doubt it, though.<p>This is nothing against the Watch tech itself. There&#x27;s probably a lot of cool applications for that tech. I just don&#x27;t think Apple&#x27;s advancement of wearables is monumental to the healthcare industry, or potentially disruptive.<p>&gt; The FDA – Running Hard to Keep Up With Disruption<p>Honestly, I don&#x27;t really know what he&#x27;s talking about with this &#x27;disruption.&#x27; Just because the FDA is trying to keep pace with all the tech being built by health tech startups, it doesn&#x27;t mean anything is getting disrupted. I have yet to see what I would consider a disruptive technology sweeping over the healthcare industry.