careMESH Launches Developer Portal and APIs for its National Provider Directory

Developers are now able to build applications using the careMESH National Provider Directory through FHIR R4 APIs.

RESTON, VA - March 10, 2022 – careMESH, a healthcare technology company focused on enabling seamless communications with any provider nationwide, today announced that it has launched a public developer sandbox for application developers to leverage its SEARCH National Provider Directory. careMESH announced the Directory in 2019, built entirely on the HL7® FHIR® R4 standard, and today hospitals, physician groups, payers and life insurance companies use the directory to find and contact healthcare practitioners nationwide.

Over two years in development, the careMESH NPD uses mature master data management processes to compile data from over 400 sources. It is in use by nearly 200 customers— including the District of Columbia Health Information Exchange (DC HIE), Tampa General Hospital, and Health Services for Children with Special Needs, Inc., a Washington D.C.-based health plan.  Since no two customers are alike, SEARCH APIs are highly configurable, allowing customers to choose specific data sources, add their own, define which data elements are returned in search results, and choose their own ranking or weighting system.  

“We’ve built both a single source of truth and what we call a Golden Record for every healthcare provider, organization and location in the country,” added Narkinsky.  “By building on the FHIR R4 standard, we've been able to stand on the shoulders of giants and deliver a mature, well-defined data model covering the complex relationships between healthcare entities.  Now, by opening our FHIR APIs for organizations to use for testing, we hope that developers will get creative and leverage this architecture to address the many issues facing healthcare. Finding and communicating with providers is the key to coordinating patient care and our goal is for SEARCH to become the definitive resource for this data.” 

Developers can learn more about the careMESH National Provider Directory, access the Developer Portal, and request an API key by visiting: www.caremesh.com/developers.

About careMESH

careMESH is a healthcare communications platform that connects the care continuum so that any provider working with any electronic health record can instantly communicate and collaborate with any other. careMESH cloud-based services allow hospitals and health systems, public health agencies, physician groups, and others to communicate about patients, maintain complete control over when and where information is shared, and rapidly reduce reliance on outdated tools such as fax and phone calls. To learn more, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.