Integration Use Cases
vitalera provides a standards-based health data platform that serves use cases well beyond traditional clinical monitoring. Below are the most common integration scenarios our customers build, organized by industry.
Clinical & Healthcare
Remote Patient Monitoring
Enroll patients into monitoring programs with automated device pairing and care plan assignment. Collect vitals continuously from BLE medical devices and consumer wearables, apply threshold-based alarms, and route detected issues to the clinical team. Supports CPT billing codes for reimbursable RPM workflows.
Key capabilities:
- Bulk patient import and automated care plan assignment
- Real-time data from BLE devices and wearables normalized to FHIR Observations
- Configurable alarm rules with automatic professional notification
- Webhook events for EHR integration and billing system triggers
Chronic Disease Management
Build long-running care programs for conditions like diabetes, COPD, or heart failure. Assign structured care plans with scheduled questionnaires, medication reminders, and periodic video consultations. Track patient adherence over time and surface trends through observation history.
Key capabilities:
- Structured care plans with scheduled activities and recurrence rules
- Validated questionnaires (PHQ-9, EQ-5D, custom) with automatic scoring
- Video call scheduling via Tasks and Encounters
- Longitudinal observation data with trend detection
Hospital at Home
Monitor recently discharged patients to catch deterioration early and prevent readmissions. Combine continuous wearable data with daily symptom questionnaires and scheduled nurse check-ins. Compound alarm rules can generate early warning scores that escalate automatically.
Key capabilities:
- Post-discharge enrollment with pre-configured monitoring protocols
- Multi-parameter compound alarms for early warning scores
- Scheduled questionnaire delivery for symptom tracking
- Real-time webhook notifications to care coordination systems
Wellness & Corporate Health
Corporate Wellness Programs
Integrate employee wellness tracking into your HR platform. Employees connect Garmin or Fitbit wearables through OAuth consent flows, and their activity, sleep, and stress data flows into your system automatically. Aggregate anonymized metrics for program reporting while keeping individual data under each employee's consent control.
Key capabilities:
- Garmin and Fitbit OAuth integration with consent-managed data sharing
- Activity, sleep, stress, and heart rate observations normalized to a single schema
- Wellness surveys via configurable questionnaires
- Organization-scoped data access with role-based permissions
Health Coaching Platforms
Power personalized coaching workflows with continuous wearable data and structured assessments. Coaches see their clients' health trends in one place, assign questionnaires to track progress, and receive alerts when engagement drops or metrics move outside expected ranges.
Key capabilities:
- Wearable data aggregation from multiple device sources per user
- Custom questionnaires for goal tracking and check-ins
- Alarm rules configurable for non-clinical thresholds (e.g., activity targets)
- Webhook events to trigger coaching interventions in your app
Sports & Fitness
Sports Event Platforms
Sync thousands of athletes through the Garmin Health API and collect race-day biometrics in real time. Post-event, query each participant's heart rate, pace, and physiological data for results pages, analytics dashboards, and leaderboards. The platform handles high-volume webhook ingestion without data loss.
Key capabilities:
- Garmin Health API integration supporting 20k+ concurrent athlete connections
- Real-time observation ingestion via webhooks during live events
- Per-athlete longitudinal data for post-event analytics and participant reports
- Bulk enrollment via API with automated consent management
Connected Training Apps
Access raw workout data -- heart rate zones, cadence, pace, GPS, lap splits -- to build personalized training plans without sacrificing data granularity. The API preserves full-resolution sensor data from Garmin and BLE devices, so your training algorithms get the detail they need.
Key capabilities:
- Full-resolution wearable data (not just daily summaries) via Observations
- Support for BLE fitness devices and consumer wearables
- FHIR-standard data model for interoperability with other health platforms
- Mobile SDKs for native BLE device pairing in your iOS/Android app
Insurance & Risk
Wellness Incentive Programs
Integrate continuous wearable data into insurance wellness programs that reward healthy behavior with premium discounts. Participants connect their devices through consent-managed OAuth flows, and engagement metrics (active days, step goals, sleep consistency) stream into your actuarial and rewards systems via webhooks.
Key capabilities:
- GDPR-compliant consent management for data sharing between participant and insurer
- Continuous activity and health metrics from Garmin and Fitbit
- Webhook notifications for real-time engagement tracking and reward triggers
- Organization-scoped access with data security and GDPR compliance
Research & Life Sciences
Clinical Trials & Research
Collect structured, FHIR-standard health data for clinical studies. Deploy validated questionnaires (PHQ-9, EQ-5D, or study-specific instruments) on configurable schedules, collect continuous wearable data as digital biomarkers, and manage participant cohorts through the API. All data is timestamped and immutable for audit trail requirements.
Key capabilities:
- FHIR R5-compliant data model for regulatory submissions and interoperability
- Validated and custom questionnaires with automatic scoring
- Longitudinal observation data from wearables as digital endpoints
- Patient and organization management for multi-site cohort tracking
Real-World Evidence
Capture continuous health data from consumer wearables at scale for real-world evidence studies. Unlike clinical-grade devices that require site visits, participants use their own Garmin or Fitbit devices at home. The platform normalizes heterogeneous device data into a consistent FHIR Observation format suitable for analysis pipelines.
Key capabilities:
- Multi-device data normalization into a single FHIR schema
- Participant self-enrollment with consent management
- Continuous, passive data collection (heart rate, sleep, activity, SpO2, stress) without site visits
- API-first design for integration with data warehouses and analysis tools
Build something different?
These are the most common patterns, but the API is general-purpose. If your use case involves collecting health data from people and devices, vitalera likely fits. Contact info@vitalera.io to discuss your integration.