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API-related Posts

An Application Programming Interface, or API, is a set of software instructions and standards that allow machine to machine communication—like when a website uses a widget to share a link on Twitter or Facebook.

  • Want to place content from HHS websites onto your own site? Now you can with these Developer resources.
  • Heathdata.gov recently converted the TXT4Tots Message Library into an API & announced the Apps4TotsHealth Challenge.
  • Heathcare.gov will relaunch this June with a completely rethought design and architecture.
  • TXT4Tots is a library of messages focused on nutrition and physical activity for parents and caregivers of children ages 1-5 years.
  • Pillbox, a pill identification tool, is opening up government data on prescription drugs. Listen to a podcast introducing the tool.
  • Those interested in speaking or presenting at Health Datapalooza IV have until April 5 to submit a request.
  • When CMS saw that developers were having a hard time using their open data site, they developed a tool to solve the problem. Meet the CMS Data Navigator API.
  • As the ‘Open Data’ movement continues to grow, HHS is publishing new APIs and open data resources.
  • HHS CTO Bryan Sivak describes the top 10 accomplishments in innovation at the Department in 2012.
  • Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are all around us, and they’re a big part of the Digital Government Strategy.

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