How you design a data API from scratch and how a data API can leverage machine learning to improve the quality of healthcare delivery are topics covered by Ribbon Health CTO Nate Fox in this week's episode.
Ribbon Health is a New York-based API platform for healthcare data that has raised $55m, including from some of the biggest names in venture capital like Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
Prior to Ribbon, Nate:
• Worked as an Analytics Engineer at the marketing start-up Unified.
• Was a Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft.
• Obtained a mechanical engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
In this episode, Nate details:
• What APIs ("application programming interfaces") are.
• How you design a data API from scratch.
• How Ribbon Health’s data API leverages machine learning models to improve the quality of healthcare delivery.
• How to ensure the uptime and reliability of APIs.
• How scientists and engineers can make a big social impact in health technology.
• His favorite tool for easily scaling up the impact of a data science model to any number of users.
• What he looks for in the data scientists he hires.
Today’s episode has some technical data science and software engineering elements here and there, but much of the conversation should be interesting to anyone who’s keen to understand how data science can play a big part in improving healthcare.
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