On Thursday, Cerner announced its plans to will bring its patient app, HealtheLife, to the Apple Watch. The iOS 8 HealtheLife app is designed to make it easier for patients to manage their health from Apple Watch, with push notification reminders to track health data and a display dashboard for tracked metrics.
Starting this month, Cerner plans to conduct initial deployments with clients to collect biometric values from the Apple Watch-compatible HealtheLife app, including weight, blood pressure and blood sugar values. With the patient’s consent, the data will be sent directly to the EHR within Cerner Millennium. Healthcare providers Emory Healthcare and Agnesian HealthCare will be the first health systems to deploy this solution.
Emory, the largest health system in Georgia, will receive data from patients through HealthKit to Cerner Millennium. Agnesian, a not-for-profit integrated health care system in Wisconsin, will also participate. Each patient will have their own set of devices, including a blood pressure monitor, glucose meter and scale.
“The status of a person’s health is greatly related to what they’re doing personally on a day-to-day basis. This information is vital to providers so they can focus on personalized patient care and population health management,” said Carter.
The Cerner HealtheLife Apple Watch app will be made available from the Apple Watch App Store beginning April 24. Customers can get the HealtheLife app for iPhone now as a free download from the App Store.
