What You Should Know:
- Ribbon Health, an API data platform that powers high-quality, cost-effective, and convenient care decisions, announced a $43.5 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and with participation from new and current investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), BoxGroup, Rock Health, and Sachin Jain.
- Ribbon plans to use this funding to prioritize team expansion and technology investments to build a best-in-class data platform to simplify
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APIs in Healthcare
Skyflow Secures $45M to Expand Health Data Privacy Vault – HLTH21
What You Should Know:
- Skyflow, a Palo Alto, CA-based customer data privacy company, today announced a $45M Series B financing round led by Insight Partners. Additionally, existing investors Canvas Ventures and Foundation Capital as well as executives from Plaid and Coinbase Board Member Gokul Rajaram invested in the Series B. With this new investment, Skyflow has raised over $70M over the last 18 months, and is positioned for rapid growth.
- Skyflow delivers a zero-trust data
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Healthcare APIs: 3 Ways APIs Differ in Healthcare vs. Enterprise
The recent enforcement of new rules to encourage the freer flow of healthcare data mainly through application programming interfaces (APIs) has jolted providers and payers into action to meet interoperability standards.
However, the rush to comply with the new requirements and avoid penalties may blind them to the subtleties and complexities of healthcare contexts as well as the significant differences between building APIs in this space versus for enterprises.
As major investments in
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Particle Health Expands Beta Program API to Consumer Digital Health Providers – Enabling Instant Access to Patient Records
What You Should Know:
- Particle Health announces the launch of its Beta Program that will enable consumer applications such as PHRs and other providers instant access to patient records stored across health exchanges - using its single API.
- The Beta Program is aimed at helping developers deliver next-gen healthcare solutions that have now been enabled with the recent passing of the Anti-Information Blocking Rule in the CURES Act.
- Now the Anti-Information Blocking Rule is in
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Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems
Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with
new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches
follow the typical RESTful API approach that has become the standard method for
data exchange. Yet Health Level Seven (HL7), with its new Fast Healthcare Interoperability
Resources (FHIR) standard for the electronic transfer of health data, is
leading to a rash of implementations that, to date, are not solving core interoperability
issues.
Data is still
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Open APIs in Healthcare: The Future of Data Integration Report
What You Should Know:
- The latest Chilmark Research report examines how data-oriented APIs are contributing to development and integration efforts across healthcare from the perspective of the developer.
- Reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and
seeking more effective ways to implement new functionality, healthcare
enterprises of all kinds are looking to alternatives for prevailing development
and integration practices.
Unlocking value
from the data scattered across
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MDPortals Taps Health Gorilla APIs to Power Clinical Data Insights
- MDPortals adopts Health Gorilla APIs to bring proprietary care insights to providers from a vast network of clinical systems.
- MDPortals will leverage Health Gorilla’s Patient360 API to retrieve clinical records from thousands of care sites across the country, augmenting MDPortals existing connections to health information exchanges and patient portals.
Health Gorilla, a leader in clinical data
APIs, and MDPortals, a leading
clinical insights company, announced today a partnership to
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XRHealth, Allscripts Partner to Integrate VR/AR Platforms, Leveraging Open APIs
- XRHealth forms a partnership with Allscripts to provide integrated VR/AR platform, leveraging Allscripts Open APIs.
- The partnership enables medical professionals to prescribe and monitor the progress of VR/AR therapies on patient health.
XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth, a provider of in extended reality and therapeutic applications, today announced a partnership with Allscripts to provide an integrated VR/AR platform, leveraging Allscripts Open APIs. The Allscripts Developer Program
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Allscripts Certifies Redox as First Global Integration Engine of Allscripts Developer Program
- Allscripts has certified Redox as the first global integration engine of the Allscripts Developer Program (ADP).- Redox provides a single, global connection to Allscripts Unity APIs that digital health vendors can use to integrate and exchange data with approved Allscripts client sites.- All digital health vendors that are part of the Redox Interoperability Network will automatically be eligible for Allscripts Unity API access; these digital health vendors benefit from faster implementation
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Innovaccer, Launches InAPI to Aggregate Healthcare Data for Providers, Payers, and Vendors
Healthcare organizations are riding the wave of digital disruption with increased adoption of applications to power patient centric-care, communications, and collaboration with peer organizations in the network. With this objective, they are seeking to integrate crucial information across the care continuum and establish interoperability among complex and disparate data systems- including legacy systems.Existing Interoperability ChallengesThere are over 200 EHRs in the US healthcare space,
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