Apple Responds to Report Saying Company's Health Team Has Faced Several Internal Issues

[MacRumors]

Apple CEO Tim Cook has previously stated that Apple's greatest contribution to mankind will be related to health, but Insider's Blake Dodge today reported that the company's health team has faced internal issues and a series of high-level departures.

The report, based on conversations with 11 current and former Apple employees and the review of dozens of documents, claims that Apple's health team has faced organizational problems that have left the group "without clear direction and struggling to mesh Apple's hardware-oriented culture with the practices of the medical business."

Some of the employees cited in the report said colleagues faced negative treatment after raising concerns, while some employees expressed concerns about inaccurate information reaching Apple's senior leadership, including Apple's COO Jeff Williams, who oversees both the Apple Watch and the company's broader health initiatives.

In a statement, Apple said many of the assertions in the story "are based on incomplete, outdated, and inaccurate information," adding that "any and all allegations of retaliatory behavior are investigated thoroughly and handled with appropriate corrective actions."

Insider's report provides more details about specific allegations from within Apple's health team.

Article Link: Apple Responds to Report Saying Company's Health Team Has Faced Several Internal Issues

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Is this why we are not getting new health sensors this year?

Is this why Apple Watch 7 re-design did not get introduce this year?

Apple: Where is the MacBook October 2021 event invites?

 

[jcshas]

Sounds like an unhealthy work environment. 😜

 

[ghsDUDE]

Funny how they won’t let you compare the 6 vs 7

 

[jz0309]

so the actual article is paywalled, and I guess the main reason for Apple to respond is the comment "any and all allegations of retaliatory behavior are investigated thoroughly and handled with appropriate corrective actions." ...

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Funny how they won’t let you compare the 6 vs 7

That's a little shady and sketchy. TBH with you!

 

[0924487]

Apple said many of the assertions in the story "are based on incomplete, outdated, and inaccurate information," adding that "any and all allegations of retaliatory behavior are investigated thoroughly and handled with appropriate corrective actions."

They admitted wrong doing!

 

[jz0309]

Is this why we are not getting new health sensors this year?

Is this why Apple Watch 7 re-design did not get introduce this year?

Apple: Where is the MacBook October 2021 event invites?

what, the AW7 did not get re-designed? So the display being 20% larger is a rumor????

 

[dannyyankou]

Funny how they won’t let you compare the 6 vs 7

Because series 7 isn’t on sale yet. They’re letting you compare the ones they’re currently selling

Odds are once the series 7 goes on sale, the series 6 will be discontinued and you can compare series 7 with the SE and series 3

 

[RedWeasel]

Sounds like an unhealthy work environment. 😜

Time to stand!

 

[TonyC28]

“are based on incomplete, outdated, and inaccurate information," adding that "any and all allegations of retaliatory behavior are investigated thoroughly and handled with appropriate corrective actions”

That sounds an awful lot like a confirmation.

 

[ghsDUDE]

Because series 7 isn’t on sale yet. They’re letting you compare the ones they’re currently selling

Was able to compare the new iPhone immediately.

Not to mention they let you compare every iPhone ever made (well most of them)…not the models that are only for sale.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

what, the AW7 did not get re-designed? So the display being 20% larger is a rumor????

I was referring to the boxier shape design.

 

[Mrjetsondc]

Medical device business is brutal. Lot of money in it. Looks like apple only saw dollar signs.

 

[dannyyankou]

Was able to compare the new iPhone immediately.

Not to mention they let you compare every iPhone ever made (well most of them)…not the models that are only for sale.

Well if you’re suggesting that they don’t let you compare 6 vs 7 because there aren’t many changes, they also don’t let you compare 4 or 5 vs 7 and it would be a nice upgrade from those two.

 

[razormaid]

Wheel of Fortune
“Yeah pat, I’d like to buy a vowel “A”. I want to solve the puzzle. It the word animosity?”

 

[Feyl]

what, the AW7 did not get re-designed? So the display being 20% larger is a rumor????

If you consider that being redesigned then you’re very easily pleased. I wish I could be that excited about nothing.

 

[leepalisoc]

Funny how they won’t let you compare the 6 vs 7

They literally just announced the preorder date yesterday. Its preorder page is not even available yet. Y’all love making up some stuff.

 

[Hombre53]

Medical device business is brutal. Lot of money in it. Looks like apple only saw dollar signs.

Nothing else drives that company other than $$$.

 

[JPack]

I wonder if some of this is related to Apple pulling their VP Technology of Watch to work on the car project. There seems to be a lot of turnover on the car team and Apple is pulling from teams to replace them.

 

[_Spinn_]

This doesn’t sound good at all.

 

[jz0309]

Medical device business is brutal. Lot of money in it. Looks like apple only saw dollar signs.

Brutal and extremely regulated (for a good reason) but also not embracing new technologies, some times for good and sometimes for not so good reasons… and they do not like newcomers… I think Apple understands what they’re into, but it is a very fine line working on technology and staying out of regulation

 

[jz0309]

In whi

If you consider that being redesigned then you’re very easily pleased. I wish I could be that excited about nothing.

ch case you are showing that you don’t understand design and manufacturing

 

[name99]

Is this why we are not getting new health sensors this year?

Is this why Apple Watch 7 re-design did not get introduce this year?

Apple: Where is the MacBook October 2021 event invites?

Honestly, better sensors are not what is needed.
Where Apple can make the biggest difference is in Health Records!

Health Records are a freaking disaster right now. Utterly idiotic. Everything is on paper, offices only have to keep the paper for about three years (and many toss it as soon as they can because of the storage costs) every time you deal with a new provider you have to fill out the same nonsense yet again (on paper), and waste money on new tests (because no trivial access to the old results).
A more insane system could not be imagined!

The single best thing Apple could do is work with Google and MS (and probably IBM and Oracle) on a single unified standard for medical data interchange. I have all my data on my iPhone (or Android, or even my PC), there's a standard way for medical providers to insert data into that record, and there's a standard way for me to give access to that record to a new medical provider. Standardize all the uninteresting stuff about interchange formats, crypto, compression and so so on, and let Apple and Google compete at the higher level of
- data presentation,
- medical sensors, and
- mining the data for insights of one sort or another.

 

[Darth Tulhu]

1. You can compare all watches except the 7 on Apple's website.
2. You can only compare products that are actually on sale, not those that are only announced.
3. This is a bit of juicy news/rumors...