Google Health Data API

Posted by Jocelyn Miller, Google Health Team

Along with the release of Google Health, we are happy to announce the availability of the Google Health Data API.

This API gives developers programmatic access to view and update Health content via AtomPub feeds. Your client application can use the API to create new medical records, request a list of medical records, and query for medical records that match particular criteria.

Here are some of the things you can do:

• Upload patient medical records.
• Get patient medical data and provide personalized functionality based on that data.

The API supports a subset of the CCR. CCR ("Continuity of Care Record") is a format defined by the medical industry, designed to facilitate the transfer of a snapshot of a patient's medical history when that individual moves from one medical provider to another. In the case of Google Health, a partner site can send a patient's CCR to Google. Given the proper user permissions, another partner site can then download that person's CCR.

Please take a look at our documentation for more information on how to integrate. We want to work with you to improve the Google Health Data API, so we'd like to hear back from you in our discussion group.

We hope that there will be many applications and services integrating with Google Health to make personal health management even easier for people. We look forward to working with you to make this happen!