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Application programming interface

API
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Definition

of

Application programming interface

from

NHS England Transformation Directorate: Information Governance Framework for Integrated Health and Care: Shared Care Records (Sep 2021)

Source

https://transform.england.nhs.uk/information-governance/guidance/summary-of-information-governance-framework-shared-care-records/information-governance-framework-for-integrated-health-and-care-shared-care-records/#appendix-1-glossary

This is the way one software application talks to another through what can be thought of as easy to read templates.

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Digital/TEC definition

of

Application Programming Interface

from

Digital Social Care (digitalsocialcare.org.uk)

Source

https://www.digitalsocialcare.co.uk/glossary-old/#A

An API is an interface that allows software programs/apps to communicate with one another regardless of how each application was originally designed. Included in standards such as FHIR.

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Digital/TEC definition

of

Application Programming Interface

from

Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Ltd

Source

A set of functions and procedures allowing the creation of applications that access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service.

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