This month, we launched the next era that can assist you reside an extended, more healthy life: the Google Health app, Google Health Coach and the Fitbit Air. Our aim is easy: we wish to provide you with management over your well being information, and the instruments to make use of it, your manner.
Proper now, conserving monitor of your well being means leaping between totally different units, apps, affected person portals and even hand-written notes. It should not be this difficult. That’s why we designed the Google Well being App that can assist you carry your information into one safe place so you’ll be able to see your entire well being and wellness, not simply components of it, and make sense of your data.
Connecting your information throughout units
With the Google Well being app, you’ll be able to connect all sorts of data as inputs — out of your wearables to your sensible scales, medical information and extra.
For instance, you possibly can put on a smartwatch throughout the day to remain linked and monitor a exercise. That very same day, you possibly can pull in meals logs from MyFitnessPal, add your medical information from a current docs’ go to, weigh your self on a sensible scale or put on a Fitbit Air to mattress to trace your sleep. Now, it’s all linked in a centralized place. The Google Well being app is sensible of all this information, addressing overlaps and filling the gaps, figuring out traits and connecting dots so that you don’t need to. And the Google Well being Coach takes that data and gives customized, proactive suggestions that can assist you meet your targets.
Google Well being connects with any app or system that integrates with Well being Join or Apple Well being in addition to tons of of apps by way of the Google Well being APIs (previously Fitbit APIs). When you’re within the U.S., you’ll be able to even sync your medical information and get perception into key data like labs and vitals. Over the approaching months, we’ll supply help for extra information varieties and deeper integrations, plus increase medical information to extra international locations and way more.
Placing customers first
Individuals have sturdy preferences for his or her foremost wearable system, or use a number of units for monitoring totally different information varieties that matter to them. However proper now, some apps join simply, and a few do not. Some suppliers make it troublesome so that you can entry and management your personal information. This can be a solvable downside if all of us work collectively and on behalf of everybody.
We’ll lead by instance with our open Google Well being ecosystem. Information portability should be a core tenet for your entire trade. That’s why we’ve constructed a brand new expertise from the bottom up, and opened our platform to 3rd events. We wish everybody who works on this area to construct nice apps on prime of Google Well being, and we’re dedicated to constructing on prime of platforms like Well being Join and Apple Well being.
With the Google Well being app, you’ll be able to share your information how and the place you need. For instance, you’ll be able to:
- Share your information with different apps utilizing Well being Join or the Google Well being APIs
- Export a TCX file for you exercises and share it together with your health app or coach
- Share your steps and Cardio Load information with associates for motivation
- Use Google Takeout to entry and export all of your information
And, we’ll be increasing these sharing capabilities quickly, so you’ll be able to:
- Share your information with Apple Well being
- Share your medical information together with your supplier or relations utilizing Good Well being Hyperlinks
- Discover and construct by yourself information with instruments like command line interfaces (CLIs) and different AI expertise
Well being and wellness must be private, and the way you share and use your information must be simply as customized. How you utilize the Google Well being app, how a lot and what sort of information you share is totally as much as you. You’ll be able to share your information, opt-in to options, export it or delete it at any time. And, your Google Well being information isn’t used for Google Adverts.
We encourage different firms like system makers, app builders and healthcare suppliers to work collectively to make merchandise extra built-in and simpler to make use of.
