Apple hopes to create more organ donors
Posted Jul 5, 2016 07:56:42 AM.
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Apple wants to encourage millions of iPhone owners to register as organ donors.
A software update this fall will add an easy sign-up button to the health information app that comes installed on every smartphone the company makes — starting first with U-S-based iPhones.
Apple C-E-O Tim Cook says he hopes the new software will help ease a longstanding donor shortage that hit home when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs endured an “excruciating” wait for a liver transplant in 2009.
Jobs passed away from pancreatic cancer in October of 2011.
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