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Health Data API

How do I start?

  1. Read our Getting Started Guide.
  2. Follow the developer Best Practices.
  3. Get familiar with the Google Data Protocol.
  4. Join the developer forum. Become a member of the community to start asking questions!
  5. Ready to start coding? Read the Health Data API Developer's Guide and take a look at our sample code.

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What is the Google Health Data API?

The Google Health Data API allows applications to view and send health data in the form of Google Data feeds. Here are some of the things you can do and what you should know:

Create New Medical Records

Add medical information to a user's profile by posting notices containing CCR data. Notices are messages that can contain certain XHTML elements, CCR data, or both. For example, notices might be sent to remind users to pick up a prescription, or they might contain lab results.

Read Profile Data

With the right permissions, your application can read a user's profile or query for medical records that match particular criteria. Use the results to provide personalized functionality based on the data.

Google Data Protocol

The Health Data API uses the same underlying protocol as the other Google Data APIs. If you're already familiar with it, see the Getting Started Guide.

CCR Standard

The API supports a subset of the CCR ("Continuity of Care Record"), a standarad format for transferring snapshots of a patient's medical history.

Become a third-party service, a data provider, or both:

Third-party Services Overview: offer personalized functionality based on the data in a user's Google Health profile.

Data Providers Overview: organizations that provide primary health information that can be imported to a user's profile.

Have you already implemented our APIs? Take our survey and let us know how it went!