- Google Health Connect will soon support Garmin
- My fitness and runna will also receive support from June
- Some other updates arrive at Google Health Connect for developers
Google I/or always begins with a key opening note, but the developer conference presents large software ads in its various talks and events, and one of them in Google I/or 2025 is that the Health Connect of Google will soon be compatible with Runna, my fitness and Garmin.
Google Health Connect, which was launched in 2022, is the equivalent of Android Apple Health. It allows you to easily share health metrics and physical conditioning data on devices and between applications, while privacy controls allow you to choose what data they are and are not shared.
As of June, my fitness (portable fitness application of Xiaomi), Runna (the excellent application of coach in execution that Strava acquired recently) and Garmin can share data with Health Connect, as revealed in its Android stage, and seen by Android Central.
That is not the only change that reaches Health Connect. As is the case with most I/O ads, these are focused on the application developer, but there are some features that we wanted to highlight.
First, Health Connect will admit new medical records API. Users can directly enter the details in the applications to highlight their allergies and immunizations, and applications can be designed to interact with clinics and practices to use the medical records of a person as a source of information
History readings should allow applications to more easily detect health trends over time, to keep users better informed.
These characteristics will require application updates before they can be implemented, and in most cases they will require permission to share their data, but mark a solid update to Google’s Health Connect services.
They should help us squeeze more utility of the best smart watches, the best smart rings and perhaps soon (thanks to Android XR) the best smart glasses that many of us now use so that we can monitor our health a little better.
