Healthcare Innovation September 6, 2019
The project’s executives say that it will look to Apple’s Health Records platform as a model to learn from
A group of healthcare and technology organizations are leading an initiative that will aim to create an open-source system so that Android phone users can access and share their digital health data.
The model will look to follow Apple’s approach, whose Health Records platform—launched early in 2018, and which is already live at hundreds of hospitals and clinics—allows patients who visit participating providers to access their health data on the iPhone Health app.
The participating organizations in the initiative—Cornell Tech, UC San Francisco (UCSF), Sage Bionetworks, Open mHealth and The Commons Project—are collaborating to develop CommonHealth, an open-source, non-profit...