In healthcare, we’re accustomed to things moving slowly. But every so often, trends accelerate and leaps are made, for better or sometimes worse. Recent news from two large EHR vendors about the adoption of open APIs signals an encouraging trend. When we launched our Infera Clinical Decision Support system seven months ago, we did so with Allscripts and athenahealth EHRs, because their initial set of APIs made it possible for Infera to harness the rich data from the patient charts to deliver … [Read more...]