APIs have reshaped the web into an interconnected network of products and services that provide a seamless user experience and have enabled SaaS companies to take over the consumer and enterprise world. However, healthcare famously suffers from a matrix of siloed, dated technologies.

But where are the healthcare APIs? They're coming. A generation of startups are taking on the enormous task of building simple, portable APIs for health data. These companies are building solutions that will finally bring about the interconnected health system that we are all desperately waiting for, and could hold the keys to cracking open the health IT market.