Inform, the Health IoT Platform

Our Inform API is the heart of Validic's Health IoT Platform. Inform enables a simple, standardized connection between our customers and their end users' mobile health and wellness apps and devices. The Inform Platform includes three methods to retrieve data and several key features, which we've listed below. If you're not currently a client and would like to learn more, let's schedule a demo to discover how Validic can help save development time and money.

Core Features

A core aspect of the Validic APIs is vastly increasing the speed of integration between mHealth app developers and healthcare businesses. Additionally, Validic provides critical enterprise features needed by healthcare companies that are not usually provided as a core service by app developers. These features include:

HIPAA/Safe Harbor/PHI Compliance

Validic eliminates concerns regarding the transfer of protected health information (PHI), as all data stored in and transferred through Validic follows the "Safe Harbor" de-identification standard and complies with all HIPAA regulations.

Standardized Resources

App developers and healthcare companies rarely speak the same language. The Validic API translates information to something both sides can understand. All units are standardized using the open-source Ruby library Unitwise.

Easy Connectivity

The Inform Platform offers three methods for gathering data from users' applications and devices. These include a real-time streaming API for instantaneous data streaming, a RESTful model for on-demand API calls, and a Push Service for batch data delivery. Our Push Services make it simple to access health-related metrics by supporting the FHIR transformation of data. These methods are backed by top-notch technical support and experienced implementation specialists.

Ready To Use Application Marketplace

With our ready-to-use, responsive application marketplace, Validic makes connecting with 560+ Health apps and devices simple. We also provide developers with the connect/disconnect/etc URLs required to build their own method for connecting users and authorizing data access.

Mobile SDK Integrations

The Validic Mobile SDK offers native mobile libraries and framework wrappers, which you can implement into your mobile project to allow for direct Bluetooth communication with certain Bluetooth LE devices. The Inform Mobile SDK also connects to health aggregation apps like Apple Health and Android Health Connect.

The Inform SDK even features VitalSnap technology, which captures and records information from the display screens of select non-connected health devices.

Connection Methods

With three ways to collect data from our platform, Validic provides developers with flexible solutions.

Streaming API

The Inform Streaming API gives developers access to all their data through a continuous stream of data in near-real time over an HTTP(S) connection using SSE (Server Sent Events). A streaming client will push data without any of the overhead associated with polling a REST endpoint. All data captured by Validic Inform integrations, whether an API/cloud integration or a mobile integration, is available via the streaming API.

RESTful API

The Inform REST API uses token-based authentication to manage and automate user creation. All communication with the API is performed through HTTPS, and errors are communicated through HTTP response codes. All requests return JSON data. All data captured by Validic Inform integrations, whether an API/cloud integration or a mobile integration, is available via the REST APIs.

Push Service

The Inform Push Service is an add-on component to our standard Inform Streaming and REST APIs. This service sends notifications for new or updated data payloads using a push notification pattern to an endpoint you provide.

Want to Learn More?

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