HealthLeaders Media September 25, 2017
Paul Black

The healthcare industry is more focused on the consumer than ever, triggering a call for true interoperability and open health data exchange through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Government regulation, consumer demand and innovative developers will make 2018 the Year of the API.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), or sets of tools and specifications that enable software to interact, are not a new concept. Other industries have opened up their APIs to enable innovative data exchange. Think about how any car dealer can pull up your financial information, or how your airline ticket can appear on your mobile phone – open APIs make these capabilities possible.

Open APIs are not as common in healthcare, which is part of the reason our industry...

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Topics: CMS, Congress / White House, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), HITECH, Investments, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Regulations
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