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Daily API RoundUp: Barclays, Mocean, Foundry Technologies
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Financial, Messaging, and Insurance. Highlights include the Bestow API for life insurance quotes and sales, and several APIs for Barclays financial services and banking. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
08-30-2018
Personal Remedies Announces Open API for Nutrition Based Remedies
Personal Remedies has set a goal of combatting chronic illnesses through diet. It is empowering a community of self-healers through its AI-based knowledge base that finds food and nutrient based remedies for certain illnesses. Now, the "choose this" for "this disease" is accessible via API.
06-13-2018
Apple's New ResearchKit Movement Disorder API Can be Used to Monitor Parkinson’s Symptoms
Apple has created a new Movement Disorder API that will be added to ResearchKit, its open source framework that is designed to let medical researchers gather data. Using the API, developers will be able to implement all-day monitoring on Apple Watch devices running watchOS 5.
06-06-2018
Edamam Adds to its Suite of Nutrition APIs
Edamam announced its latest API serving the diet and nutrition space. The Food Database API provides access to common foods bought in stores or ordered in restaurants. The API uses natural language processing to extract food information and search based on food name, nutrients, and more.
05-16-2018
US Digital Service Launches v2 of Blue Button API to Ease Flow of Medicare Data
Over 57 million Americans get their health insurance through Medicare. However, one barrier to significantly improved care has been the free flow of Medicare claims data between dissimilar systems. According to the US Digital Service however, version 2.0 of the Blue Button API should fix that.
05-01-2018
Google Announces Cloud Healthcare API
Google has announced early access to its Cloud Healthcare API. The API provides access to a solution for ingesting and managing key healthcare data. The API also allows users to make that healthcare data available in order to apply machine learning and enable analytics in the cloud.
03-06-2018
Daily API RoundUp: Can I Eat It?, Genesys, BTC Trader, WhoisXML, VuMark
Nineteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Augmented Reality, Sentiment, and Bitcoin. One hightlight is the Create Free App API which enables easy code conversion from a website to a mobile application. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
02-26-2018
ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Health, IoT, Environment
This article is part of a multi-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2017. Health, IoT, and Environment APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
12-29-2017
ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Education
This article is part of a multi-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2017. Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Education APIs are covered here. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
12-27-2017
Fitbit Announces OS Developer Preview 3 and Made4Fitbit App Challenge
Fitbit has released OS Developer Preview 3 which includes the new Power API allowing apps to display device battery charging information, the addition of the brightnessOverride parameter to the Display API, and a permissions requirement. The company also announced the #Made4Fitbit App Challenge.
11-13-2017
Access Polar User Data with the New Polar Open AccessLink API
Polar has released a new API developers can use to build apps that leverage user data stored in the company’s cloud service Polar Flow. The Polar Flow service stores user information such as exercise activity, training activity, and sleep patterns. This information is recorded with Polar products.
10-30-2017
Propeller Launches Open Asthma Conditions Forecast API
Propeller Health has opened new access to its asthma conditions forecast technology. The Air API is open and free for users to integrate with third party apps and services. Propeller's predictive technology gathers weather and pollutant data to make asthma conditions forecasts for geo locations.
10-12-2017
Dexcom Launches API to Access Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data
Dexcom, a continuous glucose monitoring solution provider, has launched an API that grants access to continuous glucose monitoring data. Use of such data is completely at the discretion of the user, on an app by app basis. The goal is to give users options to interact with glucose data.
09-25-2017
In Other API Economy News: New AWS Java SDK, Facebook Graph API updates and More
We bring you a holiday edition of the API news that we weren't able to cover. Today's news includes a new version of the AWS Java SDK, Facebook offering an explanation to developers regarding a recent change to the Graph API, and extension to the Azure Text Analytics API and more.
07-04-2017
ProPublica Introduces Vital Signs App and API
ProPublica has introduced a new application and API that provide access to healthcare provider information such as how much providers were paid for their services, payments providers received from drug and device companies, and types of drugs prescribed by healthcare providers.
03-15-2017
ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2016: Health and Environment
This article is part of a 10-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2016. Health and Environment APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
01-01-2017
ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2016: Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Education
This article is part of a 10-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2016. Entertainment and Education APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
12-30-2016
NCI Clinical Trials API Connects Doctors and Patients to Cancer Clinical Trials
The National Cancer Institute has developed an API that streamlines connecting doctors and patients to information regarding cancer clinical trials. The API pulls data from the Clinical Trials Reporting Program database, which currently includes information on around 5,000 clinical trials.
12-29-2016
Uncle Sam to Healthcare IT: Voluntary Guidelines for Open APIs Not Quite So Voluntary
APIs will be mandated as a requirement for all health software used in U.S. government-funded healthcare programs starting from 2018. The goal of the initiative is to spur growth of a new healthcare startup ecosystem and to give citizens full control of their health information.
10-10-2016
Yelp Introduces Overhauled Developer Program and New Fusion API
Yelp continued its barrage of developer news today. The company's latest announcements include a completely redone developer program and the Yelp Fusion API that will replace Yelp's existing API over time. New API features include more pictures, content caching, autocomplete and more.
09-20-2016