The Health app makes it easier than ever for users to be engaged in their health with ways to visualize, securely store, and share their health data. Your patients can aggregate their health records from multiple institutions alongside their patient-generated data, as well as share their health data with a provider to facilitate richer conversations.
Enabling your patients to get their health records on iPhone or iPad can help them more actively participate in their health and help drive overall awareness of your patient portal.
When your patients have their medical information organized into one view right on their iPhone or iPad, it can help them better understand their overall health and provide key elements of their medical history when visiting a new provider.
If a vaccine provider or health system supports the SMART Health Cards specification, it can allow your patients to store verifiable COVID‑19 vaccination or test result records in the Health app. Your patients can add these records by downloading a file or scanning a QR code, so they can easily access them at any time. Verifiable COVID‑19 vaccination information can also be added as a vaccination card to Wallet.
Connecting to the Health app has the potential to drive additional awareness and adoption of your patient portal and other services you offer because authentication through the Health app uses the same patient login credentials supported by your organization.
Empowering the patient with their health records on iPhone aligns with our vision of breakthrough innovations in patient-provider engagement. Seamless integration with our EHR makes it easy for our patients to have a complete picture of their health.
Health Records on iPhone puts our patients at the centre of their care. As a Digital Health Exemplar organisation in the NHS, we are committed to the potential for technology to empower patients to take control of their healthcare.
Patients can now collate health records from different medical providers and can show that information to their caregivers and care teams right from their iPhone. This effectively makes the patient a custodian of their own health data.
We’ve worked closely with multiple EHR vendors and others in the healthcare community to make it easy for you to enable these features.
The connection between your electronic health record (EHR) and a user’s Health app utilizes FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard APIs as defined by the Argonaut Project. Supported data types are allergies, conditions, immunizations, lab results, medications, procedures and vitals.
Apple is providing a user the ability to request and download their health records utilizing a direct, encrypted connection between the user’s iPhone and the APIs provided by the health system or clinic. As part of this feature, Apple is not creating, receiving, maintaining or transmitting personal health information for or on behalf of health systems or their business partners.
When health record data is transferred from a healthcare institution to the Health app, it is encrypted and does not traverse Apple’s network. When a user’s iPhone is locked with a passcode, Touch ID or Face ID, their health data in the Health app is encrypted on-device. If a user chooses to sync their health data with iCloud, it is encrypted while in transit and at rest.
The connection leverages OAuth 2.0, which allows users to authenticate once and create an enduring connection to your EHR APIs. The Health app will periodically connect to your EHR APIs to pull in any new health records and notify the user when new records are available.
Please check first with your EHR contact to determine how to prepare your institution to register with Apple. Apple does not charge institutions any fees for registration or to maintain a connection.
Registration is available to healthcare institutions in Canada, the UK and U.S. only.
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