Healthcare is believed to be one of the greatest portions of the U.S. economy, depicting a $2.8 trillion market (PDF), in accordance to PwC. It is also a sector rife with problems, with the price of care, drugs, and insurance generally increasing above the cost of inflation per year. As politicians on the right and the left debate the merits of the Affordable Care Act, what to do about Medicare, or whether we should shift to a single payer model as in the country of Europe and Canada, 1 thing is clear: Health care in the U.S. requires a lot of fixing, and employing innovative technology effectively can be part of the solution.
In a panel on health care APIs this week, experts and entrepreneurs in health data convened to explain the state of building interoperable API based solutions for approaching health records. The accessibility of health care records across contributors and sufferers has long been a sore point.
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