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This is meant to be used in hospitals. Where I live no hospital personal uses phones to manage healthcare data. They have PCs.

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MyGNU Health looks to be along the lines of Apple Health and is intended to be used by consumers to monitor vitals and track statistics.

It makes sense to own your own medical data rather than handing it over to big tech/FAANG.

Also to manage it on a device that is not owned by big tech/FAANG

I’d never put my health data on an iPhone or Googlized phone.

You seem to be living in the past. While EHRs are still primarily used from desktop PCs, all of the major ones have native mobile apps now. Clinicians appreciate being able to review patient charts and action alerts while away from a PC cart.

Better to make it a web app, so you don't have to mess with Apple or Google's broken economics.

You're really missing the point. The EHR vendors aren't charging customers for those apps through the Apple or Google app stores so "broken economics" are irrelevant. The app stores are only a distribution mechanism and work fine for that.

I am happy to live in a country that values data safety for critical patient data.

And this would be a white-label Epic MyChart for the particular system with embedding for the inpatient or customer facing connections that should be used

It seems like that could be done with a system shipping their own white-labeled GNU Health app through the App Store

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