Let's Talk APIs at Health Camp!

HealthCa.mp/dev 
Location: AcademyHealth (1666 K Street NW, Ste. 1100, Washington, D.C.) 
Dare and Time:  March 26  9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET
Cost: $50
As Application Programming Interfaces proliferate across the industry, we still face challenges for consumers, data holders and application developers. How can API endpoints be discovered? How can consumers have confidence in applications that are receiving their health data? How can data holders know which applications to trust? How can we address all of these challenges without limiting choice for consumers? 
HealthCa.mp/dev is hosting a pre-Palooza un-conference that will examine and brainstorm these issues and discuss standard approaches to addressing the challenges in a way that can unleash innovation that will enable an accelerated adoption and use of APIs for health data. If you are an application developer producing consumer-facing health apps, or if you are a data holder needing to provide an API for consumers to use to share their health data, you want to be at this event.

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