This document discusses how data and APIs can enable better integration of healthcare services. It notes that the healthcare industry has undergone three paradigm shifts: from paper to digital records, from sick care to preventative health care, and from passive to engaged patients. The document outlines Kaiser Permanente's complex existing systems and data flows. It envisions how open APIs could enable new applications and services by integrating Kaiser's data with other sources, like location data to suggest farmers markets or transit options. This would support a vision of digital health that makes services accessible and affordable beyond hospital walls by leveraging analytics, mobile access, and cloud-based delivery of care.
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Data + APIs: A Perfect Marriage
1. Data + API = a perfect marriage
Aashima Gupta
Executive Director, Incubation & Innovation
Kaiser Permanente
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3. The Healthcare Landscape
An Evolution:
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Paper
Electronic
Digital (One paradigm shift)
Sick Care
Health Care (Second Paradigm Shift)
Patient as a passive recipient of care
Patient as a participant in the
conversation about care (Third paradigm shift)
* SMAC - is a key tactic as a foundation for the above three paradigm shifts * Online/Mobile : we need to think "Beyond the browser" - API * API - Access to information, Access to Applications, Access to knowledge * Mashup : KP Location -> Farmers Markets ->Transit Options * Mashup : Wellness -> Analytics -> Goals * Think Different - Crowdsource : Location of ERs across the country ? Location of AED across the country ? * Health is everywhere - How do we make it accessible, How do we make it affordable ?
Health Care –Massive Data – locked inside corporate –Interconnected quagmire
As the Internet becomes “pure plumbing”, Kaiser Permanente is developing and delivering capabilities beyond the browser. These capabilities will be driven by the ability to expose digital assets through an open interface, where appropriate, to trigger application innovation through KP and our partners (developer community, other vendors, and start ups).
I’ve gone from the “Road Less Travelled” to the new (much worn) road to Digital HealthThank you