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Healthwise uses Postman Pro to share collections with the team and company
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Healthwise, a company that creates health education and applications to improve the quality of health care, was looking for a way to provide API collections to internal customers. They wanted to create a 'single source of truth' that could be shared with other groups throughout the company. They also wanted to generate API documentation and create acceptance tests against the APIs. The challenge was to find a tool that could meet all these needs and integrate seamlessly into their existing workflow.
About The Customer
Healthwise is a company based in Boise, Idaho that creates health education and applications to improve the quality of health care. They aim to make it easier for patients to get the information they need to better manage their health, thereby creating better consumer experiences and health outcomes. Healthwise uses a suite of REST APIs to give clients access to health content and the ability to deliver and prescribe that content to their patients and other health consumers. The company has a development team of 50 engineers and QA, and they use .NET, Node.js, and React as their development languages.
The Solution
Healthwise chose to use Postman Pro as a collaborative tool for providing API collections to internal customers. Postman Pro allowed the Healthwise Developer Solutions team to unify Postman collections into one 'single source of truth', which could then be shared with other groups throughout the company. The team used these collections along with Postman environments that store the configurations for local, integration, test, and production server environments. As part of the development workflow, the team updated the shared collections to ensure internal customers were up to date with the latest changes. These collections then informed new collections that could be used by external customers, speeding up integration with Healthwise APIs. Healthwise also used Postman to generate API documentation. They exported the Postman collection and then converted it to their preferred OpenAPI format. This process allowed the team flexibility to utilize any API portal that accepts OpenAPI. The ability to generate API documentation at the same time as the Postman collection greatly sped up development and ensured the documentation was accurate. As a next step, Healthwise planned to explore using the Postman collections to create acceptance tests for endpoints.
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