Health and fitness apps record valuable data, including medical records. With permission from your users, you can unlock the full potential of this data by combining it to generate powerful insights.
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Health & Fitness data types

Health Connect stores and structures health and fitness data. It also accounts for how different data types are measured. These data types include heart rate measurements taken immediately, step count taken over time, and sleep data taken in sessions.
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Health Connect provides a skin temperature data type to measure peripheral body temperature. This measurement is a particularly useful signal for detecting sleep quality, reproductive health, and the potential onset of illness.
Measure skin temperature
Exercise routes allow users to track a GPS route for associated exercise activities and share maps of their workouts with other apps.
Add exercise routes
Health Connect provides a mindfulness data type to measure various aspects of mental health, such as stress and anxiety. Mindfulness is a data type that is part of overall wellness in Health Connect.
Track mindfulness
The Medical Records feature extends Health Connect to include basic medical data in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) format. It provides APIs for applications to read and write medical data, along with a user interface for browsing the data and managing permissions.
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Functionalities

Functionalities
The platform provides standard insert, update, and delete functions for recorded data. Health Connect also includes functionality that allows client apps to synchronize data out of Health Connect.
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Functionalities
Health Connect is compatible with Android SDK version 28 (Pie) and higher. The SDK allows client apps to determine whether the Health Connect API is on the user's Android-powered device. If it isn't, Health Connect triggers an availability check to determine whether the user's device is compatible.
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Functionalities
Enable applications to continuously access a user's health data, even when the app is running in the background. This ensures uninterrupted access for analysis, synchronization, and utilization, offering a seamless health tracking experience.
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Videos

Learn about the new Health Connect APIs.
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Learn how to manager permissions in Health Connect.
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Learn how to read and write data in Health Connect.
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News

We shipped our first Health & Fitness Google Developer Newsletter! Learn about new features, updates, and community events in the newsletter.
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We're excited to announce significant Health Connect updates like the Jetpack SDK Beta, new datatypes and new permissions that will enable richer, more insightful app functionalities.
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