I’ve been “into” the concept of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for a few years now, because I think that in general they have pretty big implications in health. If research is based on data, then what better data sets exist than the ones we voluntarily fill out about ourselves on the regular? Programmable Web is [...]

An April 2010 study conducted by the California Healthcare Foundation, surveying 1,848 Americans over the age of 18, found that only 7% of Americans have used PHRs. What’s interesting is that out of all of the PHRs on the market today,  it was difficult to find five of them with either an existing open API [...]