Insiders in Apple’s healthcare organization say its leaders suppress concerns and mislead executives

It's a symptom of what insiders say are deeper organizational problems that have left the health group without clear direction and struggling to mesh Apple's hardware-oriented culture with the practices of the medical business.

People at Apple Health said that they saw colleagues face retribution for disagreeing with superiors and that concerns have been expressed on more than one occasion about the way health data is used to develop products. The situation has gotten so serious that some employees have lodged complaints with Apple's most senior executives, including Cook and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, who oversees the health effort.

Success tends to hide problems.