Application programming interfaces for knowledge transfer and generation in the life sciences and healthcare.
| Autor: | Woody SK; 1Duke University School of Medicine, 701W. Main St, Durham NC, 27701 USA., Burdick D; Stratus Medicine, 920S. Holgate St, Suite 104, Seattle, WA 98134 USA., Lapp H; 3Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, 101 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708 USA., Huang ES; 1Duke University School of Medicine, 701W. Main St, Durham NC, 27701 USA.; 4Duke Health, Duke Forge and Duke Crucible, Suite 401, Davison Building, 100 Trent Drive, Durham, NC 27708 USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | NPJ digital medicine [NPJ Digit Med] 2020 Feb 28; Vol. 3, pp. 24. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Feb 28 (Print Publication: 2020). |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41746-020-0235-5 |
| Abstrakt: | Storing very large amounts of data and delivering them to researchers in an efficient, verifiable, and compliant manner, is one of the major challenges faced by health care providers and researchers in the life sciences. The electronic health record (EHR) at a hospital or clinic currently functions as a silo, and although EHRs contain rich and abundant information that could be used to understand, improve, and learn from care as part learning health system access to these data is difficult, and the technical, legal, ethical, and social barriers are significant. If we create a microservice ecosystem where data can be accessed through APIs, these challenges become easier to overcome: a service-driven design decouples data from clients. This decoupling provides flexibility: different users can write in their preferred language and use different clients depending on their needs. APIs can be written for iOS apps, web apps, or an R library, and this flexibility highlights the potential ecosystem-building power of APIs. In this article, we use two case studies to illustrate what it means to participate in and contribute to interconnected ecosystems that powers APIs in a healthcare systems. Competing Interests: Competing interestsS.K.W. has no conflicts of interest to disclose. D.B. is the CEO of Stratus Medicine. H.L. has no conflicts of interest to disclose. E.S.H. is a non-executive Founder of Stratus Medicine, kēlaHealth, and MedBlue Data. (© The Author(s) 2020.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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