Louisiana's Oschner's Healthcare is taking patient-centric medicine one step further. They have become the first healthcare system to integrate data from Apple HealthKit directly into the EMR without need for a middleman. This represents a significant step into total healthcare continuum, and the opportunity for true lifestyle counseling. For example, the AHA recommended guidelines for physical fitness are 150 minutes of exercise a week. Simply asking a patient if they are getting that amount can lead to a highly inaccurate picture of patient health. Relying on patient to report tracking or asking office staff to check and input is likely a futile task. But being able to pull up charts and reports automatically generated in an integrated system could make a fruitful conversation around health, exercise and management of diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol a breeze for physicians in an office visit. Lifestyle counseling, in addition to pharmacologic management, is an important piece of overall patient health for many prevalent chronic common adult-onset diseases.
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