Announcing the API Prize Winner and Open Source Mobile Patient App

Canvas Medical is thrilled to congratulate the Brewer Digital team on winning the Canvas Medical FHIR API Prize and producing the first-ever cross-platform, FHIR-based, mobile patient app. Check out the repo on GitHub! star it, clone it, fork it, and contribute if you can.

Our Chief Product Officer JP Patil and CEO/Founder Andrew Hines hopped on a Zoom with the Brewer Digital team to get their guided tour of the app and talk a bit about where they want to see the community take it. 

The app demo starts at about 1:15 in the video. There's a lot still to build, but as of now, the app is:

• Cross platform, supporting iOS, Android, and mobile web
• Built with React Native using the Expo framework
• Capable of patient-side scheduling, messaging, payments, medical records, and more
• Free and open source software under the Apache-2.0 license
• Ready for your customizations and contributions

You might wonder: Why did Canvas run this $55,000 competition based on an open standard (FHIR) and then open source the code? Two reasons: 

• all patient apps should be connected with the EMR used by the patient's care team
• no care delivery company should have to build that from scratch or risk getting locked into a proprietary API from their EMR

The app is now available open source under the Apache-2.0 license. Clone it, fork it, and contribute if you can. Or, contact us to talk about integrating the app with one of our Canvas Enterprise plans.

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