Dossia Unveils New Application Programming Interface for its Personally-Controlled Health Record Platform.Providing for secure authorization and access to a participant's health data CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Dossia, a leading provider of personally-controlled health records, today announced a new API New API (also referred to as NAPI) is an interface to use interrupt mitigation techniques for networking devices in the Linux kernel. Such an approach is intended to reduce the overhead of packet receiving. for the organization's PCHR PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights PCHR Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations PCHR Port Colborne Harbour Railway PCHR Partners in Community Health Research Training Program (University of British Columbia, Canada) platform. The new API provides for secure authorization and access to a participant's health data, and supports Dossia's ecosystem partners, which include MediKeeper, Metavante, HealthTrio, eClinicalWorks as well as others from the National Coalition of Health Integration. Dossia has also collaborated with the Informatics Program at Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is a children's hospital located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. on the project, leveraging their years of research in this space. "Dossia has been working closely with personal health application providers to create an open application programming interface and a comprehensive and flexible set of healthcare XML schemas This is a list of XML schemas in use on the Internet sorted by purpose. XML schemas can be used to create XML documents for a wide range of purposes such as syndication, general exchange, and storage of data in a standard format. Bookmarks
Dossia's breakthrough API is a key element in its open infrastructure strategy which unlocks data from many healthcare institutions and organizations. Dossia's API allows an individual to share their health data with personal health applications, empowering them to make better health decisions. The core technologies utilized by the API include: * OpenID, which enables shared identity with our ecosystem partners across web sites * OAuth, an open protocol to allow secure API authorization * Representational State Transform (REST), which provides for a simple access method for reading and updating health data Dossia also announced today that the organization has launched a web site to provide the Dossia developer community with documentation to support the API, as well as links to sample source code. On the site, developers can also find an online support forum, where developers can collaborate to support personal health application development. Details of Dossia's new API and other innovations can be found on Dossia's developer web site at http://docs.dossia.org. About Dossia Dossia is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. consisting of several large U.S. employers who have united under a common vision: to empower their employees to make smarter more informed decisions about their healthcare. Through Dossia, they will leverage their combined influence to break down barriers to health information, which will help drive consumer-initiated change. The Dossia Founders group includes AT&T, Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. NASDAQ: AMAT (HKSE: 4336 ) is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel solar displays, solar , BP America, Cardinal Health <includeonly></includeonly> Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) is a premier, global healthcare company dedicated to making healthcare safer and more productive. Overview Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. , Intel, Pitney Bowes  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , sanofi-aventis, Abraxis Bioscience and Wal-Mart. For more information, visit www.dossia.org. |
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