Health Populi February 15, 2021
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration.

Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In, a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

It is likely that behind growing health data hacks is the marginally greater financial incentive to mine it compared with other consumer data. While a social security number can fetch $1 by a data...

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Topics: Apps, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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