Anna Taylor remembers being one of the first people in line to buy the Apple Watch when it debuted in April 2015. She already had a Fitbit step-tracker as part of an employee-sponsored health program that linked step counts to insurance premium reductions. As a data informaticist, she was excited to see what Apple had to offer.
“I hated it,” says Taylor, who is now the associate vice president of population health and value-based care for Washington state-based MultiCare. “It didn’t give me the data I wanted to manage, and I didn’t like the graphical user interface.” However, much has changed…
