Shelby Switzer

Biography

Shelby is a writer and civic technologist currently based in Washington, DC. She has a background in software development and API design and strategy, most recently in healthcare technology. Throughout her career she has focused on open data, open standards, civic/social/public tech, and civic hacktivism.

Talk description

Entering the healthcare tech space with a more general web development background? Here’s a hands-on guide to applying FHIR concepts, REST API principles, and the OpenAPI Specification (formerly known as Swagger) to build a healthcare API from scratch, complete with interactive documentation and tests. Come away with your own API and a better understanding of FHIR, OpenAPI, and the rich open source ecosystem and community supporting good API development and healthcare interoperability.