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EHR App Stores: Accelerating Innovation in Mobile EHR Space

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Ritesh Patil
EHR App Stores: Accelerating Innovation in Mobile EHR Space

While on the front end the mobile phone users can choose specific apps to meet their needs, on the back end these apps are granted limited access to the system’s resources and data.

Just as you go to Amazon or any other online store to buy your groceries or apparels, you drop in at consumer app stores like Google Play or Apple’s App Store to download your chosen free/paid mobile apps. The healthcare industry has also, finally, jumped in on the app store bandwagon. Focused healthcare app stores like EHR app stores, are online app marketplaces for patients, physicians and other healthcare providers to access and download relevant EHR-based applications. Such EHR application marketplaces are commonly created by EHR vendors who allow users to download apps from third-party developers who use their healthcare software development infrastructure. Though there is much that these big companies do, it is evident that a fresh perspective from an innovative third-party app developer can draw attention to new features and processes that were previously not considered.

This is the reason why EHR software vendors like Epic, Allscripts and Cerner in the past few years have opened their EHR software products and data to third parties using the app store and API model, leveraging which healthcare app developers and digital health startups can build and offer apps that easily integrate with their respective EHRs, executing tasks that their EHR software alone can’t do.

Their global platform boasts of cloud connections via 550+ API endpoints.

The Cerner Open Developer Experience (CODE) is an open platform to solve for the healthcare system and patient needs alike.

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