“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced that Rasu Shrestha, M.D., chief innovation officer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, will lead the department’s Open Application Programming Interface (API) pledge that it announced at HIMSS18.
As part of a larger federal government push on patient data access, VA announced the launch of a “beta” version of its Lighthouse Lab, which offers software developers access to tools for creating mobile and web applications to help veterans better manage their care, services and benefits…” Read the full article here.
Source: Healthcare Informatics, VA Turns to UPMC’s Shrestha to Lead Open API Pledge – By Rajiv Leventhal, March 19, 2018.
