Becker's Healthcare June 5, 2018
Julie Spitzer

Apple opened its iPhone-based health records feature to developers and researchers so they can create apps that use health record data to help users better manage medications, nutrition plans and diagnosed diseases.

Here are four things to know:

1. In January, Apple unveiled a new iPhone feature that lets patients at more than 500 participating hospitals and clinics store their patient information on their iPhones.

2. Now, consumers can choose to make their encrypted data available to third-party app developers, who will leverage that information to build new tools such as medication tracking, nutrition planning or medical research.

3. Developers will use a Health Records application programming interface to build the tools, and then, with...

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