In the healthcare industry, data interoperability has long been considered a holy grail. And eight years after the passage of the HITECH Act, which promised to create incentives for healthcare providers to “meaningfully use” electronic health record technologies and open access to medical data, interoperability still remains a massive challenge.

Late last year, the US Department of Veterans Affairs announced the completion of a Proof of Concept for a Digital Health Platform (DHP) which promises a solution to these interoperability challenges.

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If you share your code on GitHub with other developers, you may want to be notified about commits. GitHub has a built in feature to provide notifications or send an e-mail about these commits. I wanted to see, if I could leverage MuleSoft to introduce notifications through alternative channels, particularly through Twitter.

I implemented two solutions. Each has some pros and cons. You need to decide, which one works better for you. The description of the first one comes in this post.

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This post was originally written by Filip Vavera from profiq.

I would like to share my first experience with developing a connector. I decided to develop a Gitlab connector because it is a great system and I did not find a connector that would be developed for it.

First, I’m going to focus on describing the options you have when you decide to develop a connector. Next, I will describe,

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This post is by one of our MuleSoft champions, Antonio Abad.

Let’s start with a simple definition of both concepts:

“An ESB is basically the integration of the new and the old, providing a central place for the services, applications, and IT resources in general that you want to connect.”

“A microservice architecture (vs. the legacy monolithic architecture) is an approach to developing a software application as a series of small services,

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Traditionally, “Application Program Interface (API)” was a term known mostly within the developer community. Also, it would be rare to hear about a marketer or a financial analyst “working with APIs.” However, as technology continues to evolve, there are more data and ways to measure data. A particularly interesting topic – marketing technology – came across my mind, and after some research, I’ve noticed marketers were actually the largest consumers of APIs.

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We’re thrilled to be back at Dreamforce ‘16 with an exciting agenda for everything APIs, MuleSoft and Salesforce. We have exciting sessions, great partners supporting us, MuleSoft experts to talk to you about anything connectivity, and of course, fantastic giveaways!

Dreamforce session highlights:

Session 1 – API Security and Best Practices

• Topic: Whether your app is custom or built on Force.com,

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Catalyst Accelerate for Healthcare webinar is now available to watch on demand.

Slides are also available now, click here to view them.

The combination of legislative, technological, and market pressures has created a digital transformation imperative in healthcare.

For healthcare IT teams, addressing this imperative requires the the ability to expose and orchestrate data between clinical and non-clinical systems, while doing so in a way that promotes reuse and accelerates project delivery.

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I wrote a piece in July, Future of Fintech depends on APIs, talking about the landscape of Fintech and how a regular part of our lives today is enabled through Fintech innovations and APIs.

Here, I want to talk about banks and how they shouldn’t see fintech players as competitors, but partners. We’re also seeing the trend where banks are either partnering up with fintech companies,

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Govind Mulinti, a senior architect at Whishworks, is the guest author of this blog post. 

Microservices has been a buzz word for past few years. It talks about a technique of designing integrations and APIs as independently deployable services. There are certain characteristics around organizations around business capabilities, automated deployments, intelligent endpoints and distributed control of data.

Before we start on microservice style,

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We get requests from time to time about guest blogging at MuleSoft. Here is an official post about it if you are interested in submitting a guest post.

Should you guest blog? 

Of course! You have valuable insights and content and we want to help you share that information with others.

Some benefits include:

• Thousands of readers will get to read and interact with your ideas
• Be recognized together with the leader in API-led connectivity powered by our Anypoint Platform
• Network with our team and developers
• A link to your website

Ideas of topics we write and accept

• APIs
• Integration
• How-tos and tutorials
• Digital transformation
• Legacy modernization
• Current events in the API and integration space
• Other relevant topics

Basic rules and guidelines when submitting a post

• We prefer the length of the post to have a minimum of 500 words.

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