How does Health for iPhone and iPad work?

How to amend your medical record in Health

If you do not know how to edit your medical data for enrollment in the iPhone Health application, you should follow the steps below:

Go to ‘Summary‘ and select your profile section by clicking on your image
Click on “Medical History” in the “Medical Data” section and select “Edit”.

If you wish, you can choose to view this data when the screen is locked, simply select the “show screen” option. If you need to share this information with the emergency service in any case, select the ‘Share an emergency call‘ option.

You can include important information such as allergies or blood type in the medical record. If you select the share emergency call option, it means that when you send an emergency message from your Apple Watch or iPhone, this information will be shared automatically.

Health monitoring has become more common in recent years thanks to applications such as health and the increased use of smart watches such as the Apple Watch

An application designed by Apple with this concept in mind, namely Health, will allow you to store and access all relevant information that your iOS devices collect about you. This can be useful if you want to see progress or improvements in your habits and lifestyle or if you just want to make sure that the data collected is healthy enough.

The first thing you should do is start using the Health application to set up your account. Obviously, before you download it to your iPhone or iPad. To do this, simply open the application, go to your profile section and select the ‘Edit’ option.

In that section, you will need to fill in the details of your personal data: height, weight and age. If you want the application to pay attention to specific information, you can also create your own medical record.

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How to choose which information is registered with Health

Of course, you’re not interested in all the information that Salud can register. Therefore, we recommend that you choose the right data for you. On the other hand, you can choose which activities you want the app to record.

To do this, tap ‘Summary> Edit’ and tap the game or activity you want to remove from the list or add it to your favorites. Please note that those blue star jobs are added to favorites.

If you want to expand the details of each of these sections you can touch on each of them to see more details.

On the other hand, if anything you have done is not registered in the Health app, you can add information manually. To do this go to ‘Continue> Task’ and select the category of work you want to add.

For example, if you select ‘Steps’, you’ll have to tap ‘Add’ in the top right and fill in the information for the day, time and all relevant information about the physical activity you have performed.

How to monitor my longevity

One of the functions that this program accompanies is to help us keep track of our own development of our habits and lifestyle. For example if you are trying to lose weight, you will be able to see the kilos you were losing; Or if you try to be diligent, you will be able to see how many days or months you have traveled to the moon.

Go back to the ‘Summary’ section, and select ‘Highlights’ at the bottom. This is where your life will appear every time you choose.

Is it safe to use the Health app?

It is natural to ask yourself this question, after all, we provide a lot of information that is used. However, Apple makes sure that its Health app is safe as you can decide for yourself what information you want to appear on Health and which app to access.

In addition, they make sure that when the phone is locked with a password, contact ID and / or facial ID, details remain encrypted (except for emergency medical data).

On the other hand, any app that can access HealthKit must have privacy policies, so read it carefully before approval.

In this case, you might be interested to know how to choose which apps access Health. To do this, open the app and touch ‘Summary’, then select your profile and go to ‘Privacy> Apps’.

In that section you will see which apps are compatible with Health. If you touch each app you can choose which categories you want to sign up for or want to have no access to or permission with the Health app.