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Re:Akido Labs (YC W15) Provides an API Layer for Hospital Ap... by jamesalden on Thursday March 19, 2015 @06:39PM (#9235056)
Jared, Glad to see you guys are doing something different in this space! Congratulations.

Will your software allow someone to integrate with Clinics/Hospitals now without have any relationship with them? Is it sufficient to just integrate with your APIs and be able to get our user's health data from the clinics/hospitals you support?

Re:Akido Labs (YC W15) Provides an API Layer for Hospital Ap... by jrgoodner on Thursday March 19, 2015 @07:34PM (#9235313)
Hey James, that's a great question - the answer is that in order to access data from any health system, you'll need their OK.

Akido does make it much much easier for them to say OK, though :). While the API makes it far easier on developers, the hospital/clinic gets a far more secure means of transmitting data to vendors, as well as very fine grained control over who has access to which data, and detailed logs of every request.