Fierce Healthcare September 9, 2019
Heather Landi

UC San Francisco and Cornell Tech are leading a project to create an open-source platform to enable Android phone users to access and share their health records on par with Apple’s mobile health records feature.

The project, called CommonHealth, will use data interoperability standards, including HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) to make it easy and secure for people to collect their electronic health record data and share it with health apps, according to a press release.

Other organizations involved in the project include biomedical research and technology development organization Sage Bionetworks, Open mHealth, an organization focused on making patient-generated health data more accessible with an open data format, and The Commons Project, a non-profit developed to build and operate...

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