The federal government plans to turn the My Health Record into a mobile-capable platform at some stage next year, allowing app developers access to the platform through a set of conformant application programming interfaces (APIs).

The Department of Health's special adviser on eHealth Paul Madden told a national Primary Health Network (PHN) forum in Sydney last week that the government will not be developing apps itself, but will make the platform compatible so app developers can have access to it and begin using the data it contains.