APIs and the App Ecosystem - by Brendan Keeler

Porting over old content with only slight grammar updates. Originally posted to Medium here in September 2018. Will a healthcare vendor finally make the jump to technology titan? Staring at the computer screen, Dr. Billy Ruben sighed. Line after line of the dozens of lab tests cluttered his screen, not unreadable but certainly unwieldy. He wondered how he’d get through deciphering all the data when he thought back to the conversation he’d had with his pediatric colleagues at lunch. “Man, the new lab curve app has made my life so much easier!” his friend had said. “You all should try it out!” Dr. Ruben clicked the icon in the corner of his desktop for EHR App Store and typed in “pediatric labs”. Within seconds, he found, downloaded, and was using the embedded visualization tool to pull lab data from his EHR and show it in curves to diagnose and prevent jaundice in children. He was startled. For years, getting access to a simple tool would have been nearly impossible, a series of hoops o

Porting over old content with only slight grammar updates. Originally posted to Medium here in September 2018. Will a healthcare vendor finally make the jump to technology titan? Staring at the computer screen, Dr. Billy Ruben sighed. Line after line of the dozens of lab tests cluttered his screen, not unreadable but certainly unwieldy. He wondered how he’d get through deciphering all the data when he thought back to the conversation he’d had with his pediatric colleagues at lunch. “Man, the new lab curve app has made my life so much easier!” his friend had said. “You all should try it out!” D