Re:Akido Labs (YC W15) Provides an API Layer for Hospital Ap...
by jrgoodner on Thursday March 19, 2015 @07:34PM
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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.
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?