Human/api Hackathon Coming to San Francisco This Weekend

Online, July 3, 2013 (Newswire.com) - HumanAPI is a startup helping developers turn health data into valuable consumer and healthcare applications. On July 6, 2013 HumanAPI will launch their new API to the world at their hackathon at YetiZen in San Francisco.

The HumanAPI Hackathon will bring together healthcare and quantified self hackers this July 6th and 7th to build for 24 hours with various health and human data APIs, and showcase HumanAPI for the first time. More than 600 developers signed up in the first 48 hours of the hackathon announcement.

The goal is to use HumanAPI as a platform to build healthcare or fitness apps, visualization tools, or anything else you can imagine. No restrictions apply, just build your brilliant idea and showcase it to the community.

"We are hoping to bring hackers and healthcare together"

The HumanAPI is an API platform for human health data. It aggregates, cleans and stores data drawn from multiple wearable sensors, mobile devices and other data sources, and provides developers with secure, easy-to-use data streams through a single API.

The platform lets app developers easily integrate and work with these data streams by taking care of the security, storage, transmission and data interoperability issues.

HumanAPI started because I have been tracking many aspects of my life for years -- activity, location, food, sleep quality -- and hacking together scripts to import this data and analyze it.

In the first 48 hours after announcing HumanAPI we have had 600 developer sign up for API access, and half a dozen requests for pilots, including a leading telemedicine provider -- a market which will be huge for us given the legislative changes rolling out.