OSEHRA Innovation Webinar on the VA's Recently Announced Lighthouse Project

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
March 27, 2018 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

On Tuesday, March 27, OSEHRA will present a special Innovation Webinar on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Lighthouse project, delivered by VA’s  Drew Myklegard. Lighthouse is a proposed Application Programming Interface (API) management platform that allows developers to create mobile and web apps on a set of open standards based APIs including an initial FHIR endpoint. Lighthouse aims to both enable rapid innovation, and be veteran-centric, by giving developers the ability to design solutions that leverage VA data.

VA launched the beta version of Lighthouse Lab during the HIMSS18 conference. According to a recent announcement, VA is looking for a “small, initial-user group to begin building a developer community. Participation in the group will include helping to test APIs, building out documentation, developing governance standards, and testing developer support workflows.”

For more information on the Lighthouse project, download their fact sheet here.

Presenter: Drew Myklegard
Managment Analyst
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs