Apple, iPhone, Government, & Medical Files...

June 2009

Is Apple the next Halliburton? So let's assume that a hospital digitizes its records through a program that has an iPhone app companion. If the hospital wants its doctors to have portable access to the records, then it will probably choose the iPhone rather than some poorly-designed device nobody's ever used. And that means it needs to buy a batch of iPhones at a few hundred bucks a pop. All of a sudden, Apple has a new income stream. Courtesy of the federal government. Go to The Big Money to read the full article.

Thank C. Matlin Great piece...