Announcing our API Prize Winner and Open Source Mobile Patient App

We have a winner! Canvas is thrilled to congratulate the Brewer Digital team on winning the Canvas Medical FHIR API Prize and producing the first-ever cross-platform, FHIR-based, mobile patient app.

The app is open source and available under the Apache-2.0 license. Clone it, fork it, and contribute if you can, through the Github repo here: https://github.com/canvas-medical/mobile-patient-app

The winning entry, from Brewer Digital, supports a number of capabilities for patients to access their health records and interact with their care teams. Some of that functionality includes:

* Scheduling
* Messaging
* Payments
* Medical records access

The application is cross platform, supporting iOS, Android, and mobile web. It is built with React Native using the Expo framework, and is free and open source software under the Apache-2.0 license. It's now ready for your customizations and contributions


You might wonder: Why did Canvas run this $55,000 competition based on an open standard (FHIR) and then open source the code? Two reasons:

(1) all patient apps should be connected with the EMR used by the patient's care team

(2) no care delivery company should have to build that from scratch or risk getting locked into a proprietary API from their EMR.I

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Canvas Chief Product Officer JP Patil and CEO/Founder Andrew Hines hopped on a Zoom the Brewer Digital team to get their guided tour of the app and talk a bit about where they want to see the community take it. The app demo starts at about 1:15 in the video.

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