Blog Security Research Why Payers Are Pivotal to API Security Across the Healthcare Ecosystem Carley Thornell is a former Industry Marketing Strategist for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Akamai. She has a deep background in thought leadership in the technology space, including leading the content strategy and research team at one of the country’s leading electronic health records systems. While payers’ high use of APIs delivers tremendous benefits, it also introduces risk. As Akamai celebrates 10 years of State of the Internet (SOTI) reports , we’re sharing insights from key industries we serve, including healthcare and life sciences. This is the first blog post in a SOTI series that will culminate in a comprehensive report later this year.  With robust access to both clinical and financial data, payers are the nexus of data sharing across the healthcare ecosystem — and they increasingly rely on application programming interfaces (APIs) to do that sharing.…