API Automation in Healthcare with Hasura

In healthcare information systems, interoperability, security, and privacy are crucial parameters. Legacy systems across different facilities maintain records in various data stores and formats. Building a modern-day healthcare solution requires complex wiring of these legacy systems, diverse data formats and standards, and automation through a secure, high-performance data API layer that can be easily consumed by developers from multiple organizations. Hasura is a Data API Platform designed to simplify building and operating production data APIs, reducing cost, complexity, and time to market. It connects to databases (legacy or modern, existing or new) and instantly generates GraphQL APIs. In this post, we explore how low-code API approaches like Hasura accelerate the modernization journey of applications in healthcare. Healthcare data management involves a variety of standards designed to ensure data interoperability, privacy, and security. Some common standards include HL7 v2, FHIR, OMOP/OHDSI, and SNOMED-CT. Hasura can automate CRUD APIs for these models instantly and provide an eventing system for sending HL7 v2 messages between facilities managing patient records. Modernization initiatives in healthcare often involve significant time, money, and people investment. Building or rebuilding the API layer to wire modern and legacy components together is usually the slowest and most arduous part of the process. Hasura supports modern API standards like REST/GraphQL with JSON and can connect to legacy databases, helping incrementally migrate to modern databases tailored for specific workloads. API Automation with Hasura reduces the time developers spend writing APIs by automatically generating a GraphQL endpoint with all core GraphQL operations like queries, mutations, and subscriptions. It also provides declarative role-based access control essential for compliance with healthcare data regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR. Hasura Cloud is designed to help companies follow the three tenets of information security: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is SOC 2 Type II compliant, HIPAA compliant, regularly penetration tested, ISO certified, and GDPR compliant. Hasura's advanced security features include a native Authorization system, audit logs, API allow lists and limits, and addressing OWASP Top 10 concerns. Unified Health Records with Data Federation in Hasura provides an integrated view of patient health records, leading to speedier, more accurate diagnoses without any code changes or proprietary modifications. It supports multi-protocol federation across databases, REST APIs, and GraphQL APIs, as well as a schema registry for evolving schemas transparently, controlled, and collaboratively. In summary, Hasura has helped many Fortune 500 companies modernize their healthcare systems with its high-performance data access API engine, real-time capabilities, and compliance with industry standards for data regulations.