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Once I was inspired to switch to data engineering, I noticed something interesting: there appeared to be a lot of data engineers like me.

The most full-featured health record API is developer-friendly and promoted by the US government.

When the pandemic struck, America’s largest health system (the VA) unleashed its full digital arsenal to inform care.

Since 2020, select out-of-network providers have access to years of Veterans Affairs medical history. The VA has been working to make interoperability happen!

It’s easier than ever to track, view, and visualize records with Particle’s developer portal!

The Particle Health Team found plenty of ways to have fun and talk FHIR, which was on everyone's mind at HLTH.

Why we support identity-based instead of credential-based access for FHIR, and how we consistently try to achieve the right balance of access, security, and privacy.

Remember these key dates for info sharing compliance.

How providers have handled a different HHS data rule gives info blocking fighters plenty to think about.

The Synthetic Health Data Challenge launched on January 19, 2021, invited proposals for enhancing Synthea or demonstrating novel uses of Synthea-generated synthetic data.

Today, we announced your data is officially safe with us.

Investment in health tech startups reached over $15 billion in 2020—a big increase from $10.6 billion in 2019. While the pandemic has driven much of this growth, the upshot is that companies developing healthcare applications have more resources than ever to adapt to the Cures Act Final Rules.

Kaakpema "KP" Yelpaala welcomed Troy Bannister to InOn Health podcast, where they dive into how Particle makes healthcare data accessible to health tech companies and individuals.

We returned to HIMSS to talk nationwide interoperability, and left with even more inspiration around healthcare innovation.

Particle Health recently underwent a brand transformation, and we’d like to take this exciting milestone to let you in on some of our process and thinking.

Healthcare in the military has achieved significant progress in the interoperability landscape. Both the Military Health System and Veterans Affairs have worked together to develop and implement interoperable technologies that allow the secure exchange of records.

Most companies have a clear mission and a clear but separate culture. It’s not often that the two are fully integrated. At Particle, something special has happened: our mission and our culture are in fact very much tied together. Why? How? Because what we’re building is really personal.

What is an HIE? Here, we cover all its definitions to fully understand the role they play in sharing medical data in healthcare. We also discuss the different types of HIEs along with some examples.

Last time you were here, we talked about the HITECH Act. The time before that, we took a quick dive into an overview on federal policy. Today, we’re going to pick it up from where we last left off on Meaningful Use. Here’s a pretty great summary of the evolution of Health Tech interoperability.

Our COO, AJ Audino, vividly remembers the day Particle signed its Series A term sheet in early March 2020. Here are some of his personal observations-- both big and small-- gathered over this past year.

The Anti-Information blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act have become enforceable as of April 5th, 2021. Particle decided to test this out and see if our employees now had control of their own medical information. Find out how it went.

The HITECH Act is part of the ARRA of 2009, and was created to promote and expand the adoption of health IT. Here we cover everything you need to know about these acts and how they incentivize the use of EHRs by healthcare providers.

Welcome to our multi-series on Health Technology: Policy and Implementation, where we will cover the rules and regulations that make our mission of providing easy and secure access to vital medical data possible. Today, we’re going to cover Federal Policy 101.

Tune into a special episode of Mike Bisseli's podcast, Passionate Pioneers, featuring Particle's CEO, Troy Bannister. In this episode Troy discussed how Particle is leveraging opportunities brought forth by new legislation, how we're integrating with the largest EMRs, and much more.

Our CEO has been in healthcare for about 14 years, from EMT to Entrepreneur. Along his journey he realized that the world of startups and healthcare equal one thing: jargon. A lot of it. Here's the 101 on HealthTech Startup Jargon.

Particle Health is listed as one of the Top 100 Digital Innovators in the New York City Health Business Leaders x Deloitte Innovation Report. This in-depth report is chock full of funding data and insights from 50+ entrepreneurs, investors, clinicians, and thought leaders.

Healthcare systems can now use Particle Health's FHIR API to easily enable a search for the exact information they need within a patient record. Read the press release.

Particle uses OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework to ensure secure access to medical data to our customers. Given that this framework is very complex, we've put together an overview that explores how it works by sharing examples of how we use this technology in our everyday lives.

When our founders started Particle, their dream was to empower patients to take control of their medical data and use it to enrich their lives. They also aimed at fueling innovation in healthcare by building a single platform, and they learned a lot of hard things along the way.

Particle Health offers two distinct APIs: C-CDA and FHIR. They both offer the same level of unparalleled access to patient health data, but they differ significantly in how they offer access to that data. Let’s dig into Part 3 of our three part miniseries on APIs.

We know what APIs are, and what they do. So why choose an API as a product? APIs have become largely ubiquitous in the tech landscape, and for good reason. While there are alternatives, it's important to understand why we don’t choose them. Check out Part 2 of our three part miniseries on APIs.

What is an API? The answer to what an API does seems pretty obvious, at first glance. However, what an API actually is can be sometimes misunderstood, so we've put together this high-level technical overview to help you better understand both what Particle's API is, and what our API does.

Biden shared the frustrating yet all-too-familiar tale of the peril when patients can't get seamless access to their own medical records. Troy was struck: how could the second-most powerful man on the planet not have the right resources to help his son?

In this episode of StartUp Health TV, CEO and co-founder Troy Bannister reveals what his New York-based startup has been working on for the last 2+ years to #destroythefaxmachine for good. Now, with the launch of Quark, health tech app developers can put Particle's API to the test.

Read about the launch of our new HIPAA compliant platform that converts EMR data into an easily ingestible FHIR format.

We're proud to announce the launch of Quark, a new experience that provides digital health companies with unprecedented secure access to vital medical data from across the US. Quark takes advantage of Anti-Information Blocking and uses FHIR to offer a modern developer environment.

We quickly realized that Healthcare Interoperability 3.0 will have two types of value buckets: table stakes and key differentiators. We worked on both.

Our CEO, Troy Bannister, discusses the opportunities of running Particle Helath, as well as what it's been like co-founding the company with Dan Horbatt, the fundraising process, and other lessons in entrepreneurship during the pandemic. Check out the interview via What I Found.

Interoperability 3.0 promises us in healthcare what Apple did so well in technology—it strengthens the pull with each newly connected service, device or solution. And Interoperability 3.0 is right around the corner.

Jonathan Shieber at TechCrunch writes about how Particle Health is stepping into the breach with an API -based solution that borrows heavily from the work that Plaid and Stripe have done in the world of financial services.

Read about Particle Health’s Series A led by Menlo Ventures.

Particle Health’s response to COVID-19. No cost access to medical records.

Particle Health in StartUp Magazine listed as “a company making leaps.”

CommonWell welcomes Particle Health as new member of its fast growing health data network.