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Healthcare API development
Healthcare APIs connect your product to EHRs, national services, labs, pharmacies, and partners. They must be secure, auditable, standards-compliant, and reliable enough for clinical workflows.
Common challenges
What teams struggle with
Security requirements
OAuth, API keys, mTLS, and certificate-based auth — often combined in one platform.
Audit and logging
Every API access to health data needs traceable audit trails.
Standards compliance
FHIR, HL7 v2, and SOAP each have conventions that affect API design.
Versioning and backwards compatibility
Healthcare integrations can't break when you deploy API changes.
How we help
Practical solutions that ship
API design and documentation
OpenAPI-specified REST APIs and FHIR endpoints with developer-friendly documentation.
Security implementation
OAuth 2.0, SMART on FHIR, mTLS, and rate limiting for healthcare APIs.
HL7 and FHIR connectors
Message processing pipelines for inbound and outbound clinical data.
API gateway and monitoring
Centralised API management with usage analytics and health monitoring.
Frequently asked
Questions about healthcare api development
REST or FHIR for our healthcare API?
FHIR if you're in the clinical data exchange space. REST with healthcare-specific patterns for product APIs. Often both — FHIR for clinical exchange, REST for your application API.
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