Application Programming Interfaces

FHIR May Not Help Healthcare Orgs Achieve Semantic Interoperability

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations participating in the value-based care environment are in need of strong, secure data pipelines that can help them communicate across disparate health systems to coordinate and...

Exploring Low-Code, Outsourcing for Healthcare App Development

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare app development is a critical IT infrastructure step, but choosing how to handle the development process depends on how many apps will be developed, what they will be used for, and what IT...

Top 3 Ways to Succeed with Healthcare IoT, Mobile Device Strategies

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations looking to enable more effective workflows and speedier access to data are searching for mobile device strategies that will allow them to harness the power of the Internet of...

APIs Are the “Missing Piece” for Healthcare App Interoperability  

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare app interoperability is not a new challenge for healthcare organizations. Over the past several years organizations have had trouble connecting their health IT tools to their EHRs. The...

Major Vendors Continue Investing in Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Consumer and health IT infrastructure technology are blurring together as Google, Amazon, and Apple are making significant leaps into the health IT space. Healthcare organizations are going through...

ONC Promotes Open APIs to Solve Interoperability Challenges

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Interoperability remains one of the biggest challenges facing healthcare organizations today. Despite the advancements providers are making through digital transformation and (application programming...

Healthcare API Management Supports Applications Innovation

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations deal with several application programming interfaces (APIs) when it comes to building apps and sharing data. Organizations going through digital transformations need to manage...

Healthcare APIs Put Patients in Control of Their Data

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The introduction of blockchain into health IT infrastructure has sparked the concept of giving patients more control of their own data. Organizations need to consider healthcare application programming...

New Google Healthcare API Addresses Interoperability Challenges

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Google announced the release of its healthcare application programming interface (API) to help organizations address interoperability challenges. The cloud-based healthcare API may help encourage...

Understanding Healthcare Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), sometimes called Hardware-as-a-Service, is becoming more popular as organizations migrate parts of their infrastructure to the cloud. Infrastructure delivered as a service can significantly...

Healthcare Blockchain, Cloud, Virtualization Top 2017 Stories

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Health IT Infrastructure went through many transformations in 2017 from healthcare blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Healthcare...

How Healthcare Low Code App Development Increases Flexibility

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare entities are looking to become more agile and developing applications is part of that process. Healthcare low code app development platforms are used by developers to build applications...

PatientPing, WellStar Collaborate on Care Coordination

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

PatientPing announced its partnership with Georgia-based WellStar Health System to provide care coordination to one of the largest health systems in Georgia. The collaboration aims to increase...

Advanced Health IT Infrastructure Supports Value-Based Care

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

There are many strategies organizations can use in the realm of revenue cycle management. However, healthcare organizations are looking to their health IT infrastructures to further fulfill value-based...

Lack of HIT Interoperability Leaves Infrastructure Gaps

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

HIT infrastructure has yet to evolve to truly support the transition so value-based care due to lack of HIT interoperability, according to a recent report from the Journal of the American Medical...

Healthcare API Management Solutions Grow with Interoperability

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The application programming interface (API) management market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 34 percent from 2016 to 2021, according to a recent Markets and Markets report. Report authors stated...

PatientPing Brings Care Coordination to New Jersey Healthcare

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

PatientPing announced its new partnership with Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey in an effort to provide patients with coordinated care. PatientPing hopes to bring full data sharing and...

Healthcare Providers Enthusiastic About Future API Adoption

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are looking toward application programming interfaces (APIs) to usher in an era of interoperable health IT infrastructure according to a new report by Chilmark...

TSI Genomics API Powers MedTek21 Population Health Platform

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Transitional Software Inc. (TSI) has announced that MedTek21 has selected their Genomics API to provide pharmacogenomics (PGx)-based monitoring for MedTek21’s population health and medication...

Why Application Programming Interfaces Are Key for Healthcare

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations seeking to create interoperability between internal apps, EHRs, and other data exchange tools, are increasingly turning to application programming interfaces (APIs) to manage the flow of information between...