API & Agents
Integration patterns, webhooks, MCP and putting care inside your product.
Building on Lithos, Part 3: event-driven integration with webhooks
Why polling breaks care products, the event sequence from encounter.created to order.completed, thin payloads you fetch on receipt, and the idempotent handler pattern that keeps your app and the clinical pipeline in sync.
ReadBuilding on Lithos, Part 2: adding prescriptions to an existing app
For fitness, wellness, supplement, and women’s-health products that want to offer real treatment: the integration path from your existing user to a shipped prescription, in weeks.
ReadBuilding on Lithos, Part 1: the four integration patterns
Which integration pattern fits which team — from a fully custom patient app on the API to a forked portal template to an AI assistant ordering care — and what every pattern includes.
ReadWhat is agentic healthcare? How AI agents deliver care in 2026
The shift from AI that answers to AI that acts — what agents can do in a care program, where clinicians must decide, and the infrastructure that makes it lawful.
ReadCan AI prescribe medication? How AI prescriptions actually work
AI cannot legally prescribe in any US state — but it can do almost everything around the decision. The rules, the workflow, and how to build “prescribe using AI” the right way.
ReadRefill medication with AI: how an agentic refill runs from request to doorstep
Why refills are the first job for a healthcare agent, the eligibility and follow-up checks it runs, the clinician authorization step, and what the patient sees.
ReadWhere AI stops: clinical escalation and the human in the loop
What an agent can safely do in a telehealth program, where a licensed clinician must decide, and the escalation design that keeps both true.
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