Security Boulevard August 2, 2022
Ed O'Connell

The rise of healthcare applications and digital services has ushered in an era of greater visibility and interaction between providers and patients. Patients now have on-demand access to critical information such as medical records, test results, and medications. Providers can communicate with patients in real-time from remote locations, answer questions, and share data via web-based and mobile platforms. Many of these notable improvements in both preventative and reactive care can arguably be attributed to the evolution of application programming interfaces, better known as APIs.

APIs provide the necessary interoperability for data to be shared regardless of how EHR systems represent or store data internally. This means that if you should ever become ill on vacation abroad, the local...

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Topics: Apps, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Health IT, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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