MedCity News April 3, 2022
API adoption will hinge on efforts from all angles — such as healthcare organizations, IT specialists and regulators – working together to support a standardized API solution and overhaul of systems in much need of transformation.
Decades of piecemeal and ad hoc development across thousands of siloed healthcare databases has created the mother of all legacy integration nightmares. While off the shelf APIs can provide developers with instant access to databases, data formats and protocols across healthcare providers’ legacy systems vary so widely that the interoperability of this data is the major challenge. How can we be certain that the John Smith listed in one database is the same John Smith listed across a dozen others?
It’s this specific challenge...