Scenario 1: A runner is out for an early workout taking the isolated forest trail when all of a sudden is feeling out of breath, tightening chest, and falls to the ground. The runner just had a heart attack with no one around.
Beforehand, the runner decided to become proactive in the future of the digital healthcare transformation and tryout a small, stick on patch that monitors various bodily function. This electronic patch is connects to a mobile phone and sends information back and forth every second. One main feature of this app, and patch, is monitoring your heart for irregularities which when detected activates an emergency ‘911’ call via API to a local emergency smart contact 911 center that acts as a service to heart patients. This patch, empowered by the capabilities of API platforms saved the runners life.
Scenario 2: A college football team is finishing the second practice of the day where the team was training on high impact tackles the entire practice. The constant impacts of players left a couple of players heading off the field early diagnosed with fatigued. After practice, the fitness coach checks the data collected from the retrofitted high impact indicators from the athlete’s helmets.
The fitness coach looked at the reports collected from API calls from the devices that were stored locally. The coach finds that the players that had to sit out early, and were diagnosed as fatigued were actually suffering from concussions. The players were immediately notified, and sent to the hospital – preemptively saving them from any further damage, and possibly their lives.
Innovators from all over the world are creating devices to empower industries. The healthcare industry has transformed due to technology and API platform integration in serving patients in, and out of any center. The sensor market has evolved to being placed on our bodies, or in our bodies, and to provide constant monitoring either for surgeries, emergencies, or routine checkups. The open API pipeline empowers these devices by allowing further research and development into these devices, and our health.
Open API devices have taken over the healthcare industry to offer care at home, and even saving patients’ lives at home where they are able to wear sensors or monitors that are constantly providing data back to doctors or researchers. The digital healthcare transformation and APIs are changing the way people live, and saving those in dire situations.
