HealthTap, a Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to doctors and their knowledge via video, text, and voice has unveiled HealthTap Cloud™, a innovative development platform that enables health developers to build health apps more efficiently and cost effectively. HealthTap Cloud offers the best developers, large or small, a full suite of microservices through APIs and SDKs, any combination of which can be used to build/enhance features or power entire apps.HealthTap Cloud is
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McKesson Launches Interoperability Platform to Build FHIR API Apps
Today, McKesson Health Solutions (MHS) unveiled the McKesson Intelligence Hub, a new technology platform for enabling interoperability and sharing business intelligence among healthcare apps. The result of a multi-year development program, the Intelligence Hub is designed to connect MHS’s portfolio of automated reimbursement solutions and help streamline payment by making interoperability easy for customers, partners and vendors across the healthcare ecosystem.Moving Beyond Data
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Healthcare API Platform PokitDok Lands Strategic Investment from McKesson Ventures
McKesson Ventures has made an strategic investment in healthcare API platform startup PokitDok . The financial details of the strategic investment were not disclosed. PokitDok believes the relationship with McKession Ventures will help foster productive innovation in healthcare interoperability. Tom Rodgers, Senior Vice President and Managing Director at McKesson Ventures will join PokitDok as a board observer.
“McKesson is an established provider of enterprise-level healthcare data
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Can Public APIs Unlock True Health IT Interoperability?
Do we finally have the spark?
Interoperability is the current health IT buzzword because it’s the essential ingredient in creating a system that benefits patients, doctors and hospitals. Almost everyone in healthcare is pressing for it and is frustrated, though probably not surprised, that Meaningful Use did not get us there.
The ONC says within three years we’ll have a roadmap for providing interoperability “across vendor platforms,” which should probably elicit a collective groan.
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