Reimagining Health Data Exchange: An Application Programming Interface–Enabled Roadmap for India

Satchit Balsari   ^{1, 2} , MD, MPH ;   Alexander Fortenko   ³ , M.D., M.P.H. ;   Joaquín A. Blaya   ⁴ , PhD ;   Adrian Gropper   ⁵ , MD ;   Malavika Jayaram   ⁶ , LLM ;   Rahul Matthan   ⁷ , LLM ;   Ram Sahasranam   ⁸ ;   Mark Shankar   ⁹ , MD ;   Suptendra N Sarbadhikari   ¹⁰ , Ph.D. ;   Barbara E Bierer   ¹¹ , MD ;   Kenneth D Mandl   ^{12, 13} , MD ;   Sanjay Mehendale   ¹⁴ , MD, MPH ;   Tarun Khanna   ⁹ , Ph.D.

¹ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

² Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Boston, MA, United States

³ NewYork-Presyterian Hospital, Emergency Medicine, New York, NY, United States

⁴ The Human Diagnosis Project, Washington DC, DC, United States

⁵ Patient Privacy Rights, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ Digital Asia Hub, Hong Kong, China

⁷ TriLegal, Bangalore, India

⁸ Athenahealth, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁹ Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, United States

¹⁰ International Institute of Health Management Research, New Delhi, India

¹¹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

¹² Boston Children's Hospital, Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston, MA, United States

¹³ Harvard Medical School, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Boston, MA, United States

¹⁴ Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India