Out-Of-Pocket: Making healthcare easy to understand.

These technological offerings can address unmet health-care needs by circumventing traditional intermediaries, such as payers (eg, insurance companies and governments), clinicians, employers, and the pharmaceutical industry, and provide patients with direct access to health-related data and services. Like other industries that empower consumers wit... See more

In order to get to this position, Apple has had to gain the trust of the healthcare industry and the government. The first step to this new healthcare reality is integrating medical records into Apple Health. To be clear, getting to this point has not been a walk in the park. Behind the scenes, Apple has done a ton of blocking and tackling with key... See more

Rather than trying to improve them, the most exciting health tech companies will ignore the parts of healthcare that have become obviously anachronistic, actively discarding convention. The seeds of this difference have been sown in a handful of companies started in the last few years. They are painstakingly taking relationships from incumbents, wi... See more