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Apple The devices will boost a hospital in Georgia, the first for the company, since it continues its impulse in the health sector.
Emory Healthcare announced on Thursday that his Emory Hillandale Hospital will be the first American hospital that is executed in Apple products, including iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, IMAC and Mac Mini. The devices will also be integrated with the Epic Systems software, the leading supplier of electronic health records in the nation.
Hillandale is using Apple products because they are easy to use, they require less IT support, they offer cybersecurity advantages and have hardware and long -standing battery life, said Emory executives to CNBC.
Since this is a new territory for the health system, Emory said it will closely monitor devices to ensure that they improve the quality of care of the organization.
“It can certainly be a game change that has not been done anywhere else in the country,” said Emory Healthcare CEO, Dr. Joon Lee, in an interview. “And like everything else, it will not be without its challenges, but it really opens the door to multiple possibilities.”
Emory Healthcare is an academic health system in Georgia that operates 10 hospitals and supports approximately 26,400 employees. Its installation of Hillandale is a 100 -bed community hospital on the outskirts of the Metropolitan Area of the Great Atlanta.
“In Apple, we believe in the power of technology to improve lives,” said Dr. Sumbul Desai, Apple Health Vice President, in a statement to CNBC. “We are delighted that Emory Hillandale Hospital is using Apple products to provide exceptional care, because doctors and nurses should have the best technology in the world to care for their patients.”
The interest of the health system in the use of more Apple products was partially inspired by the main Crowdstrike The interruption that shook business, including Emory, last July, said Dr. Ravi Thadhani, Executive Vice President of Health Affairs at Emory University.
Thadhani said that more than 20,000 of the health system devices were “paralyzed” by an defective crowdstrike software update, but in particular, all its Apple products were still working. Following the interruption, executives asked Apple and Epic engineers to visit Emory and explore a deeper integration.
“They were already working on each other, they could get epic on an Apple device, but it wasn't fast and it wasn't without problems,” Thadhani said. “And then they came, they descended here.”
Epic is the Emory Electronic Health Registration Supplier, or EHR. EHRs are digital versions of the medical history of a patient who are updated by doctors and nurses. The software is often known as the “central nervous system” of a medical care organization, said Seth Howard, executive vice president of Epic Research and Development.
Howard said Epic has worked with Apple for many years, implementing applications for the iPhone since 2010. Last year, the company launched Epic in Mac, which put its complete set of applications available in the Apple Macos computer operating system.
“The Epic On Mac project was really an extension and an upcoming natural step for us on this trip with Apple,” Howard said in an interview.
Emory was one of the first to adopt.
Before Emory decided to deploy Apple devices in an entire hospital, he made a smaller pilot on a floor of an installation. Thadhani said that the comments of doctors and nurses were “phenomenal”, which gave the health system the confidence to expand the scope.
If Hillandale launch is a success, Lee said the health system could implement Apple products in other Emory facilities in the future.
“Certainly, our intention and hope is to show a difference, and that we can expand and will also be a model for other health systems throughout the country,” he said.
