Medical Device Integration with Spike API

The medical IoT market is experiencing rapid growth and is projected to reach $364.83 billion by 2032 as healthcare shifts toward remote patient monitoring and continuous care models. By 2030, over 142 million U.S. patients (40% of the population) will be using remote monitoring technologies. This growth is driving demand for unified API solutions that can connect to hundreds of devices without building individual integrations for each manufacturer.

Spike IoT API provides a unified medical devices API that eliminates the need to build and maintain individual integrations for each device manufacturer, giving developers access to 500+ medical IoT and wearable devices, including CGM sensors, blood pressure monitors, and other connected health devices.

What is a medical device API 

A medical device API provides a unified integration layer that sits between your application and device manufacturer servers. Instead of building separate connections for Dexcom, Freestyle Libre, Omron, Withings, and hundreds of other device manufacturers, you integrate once and access data from all supported devices.

The API handles four key functions:

• Device authentication: Users authorize their devices once through secure OAuth flows
• Data retrieval: The API polls manufacturer servers or receives webhook notifications when new data is available
• Format standardization: Raw data from different manufacturers gets transformed into consistent JSON structures
• Data delivery: Your application receives normalized health metrics through endpoints or webhooks

This unified approach eliminates the engineering overhead of managing relationships with dozens of device manufacturers and maintaining separate codebases for each integration.

Benefits of Spike IoT API 

Unified device connectivity delivers significant advantages for developers building health applications.

• Faster development: Spike IoT API significantly reduces development time compared to building integrations in-house. Connect once to access 500+ devices instead of spending months building individual integrations for each manufacturer.
• Flexible data access: Get both raw manufacturer data and normalized formats. Raw data preserves granular device-specific details while normalized data provides a consistent structure across all devices for easier analysis and comparison. This dual-format approach means you're never locked into a single data structure when your application requirements evolve.
• Instant monitoring: Data arrives as soon as devices sync, enabling healthcare applications to trigger alerts based on threshold values. This enables timely interventions for remote patient monitoring and chronic disease management, where hours of delay can impact patient outcomes.
• Reduced maintenance: Spike handles provider API upgrades, new device releases, and version control. Your app continues working when manufacturers update their APIs or introduce new models.
• Data compliance: Spike maintains HIPAA and GDPR compliance with data centers in Europe, end-to-end encryption for all device data transmissions, and has 27001:2022 ISO certification. Your health platform meets regulatory requirements without building security infrastructure from scratch.

Use cases for the Spike IoT API

Medical device connectivity opens doors for nutrition, health, and wellness applications by improving patient outcomes and user experience, and helps you get ahead of the competition. 

Metabolic health and nutrition apps

Integrate CGM API data to show users how different foods affect their glucose levels. You can also add Spike MCP to provide AI-powered personalized insights and meal recommendations. Combined with activity data from wearables, nutrition platforms can deliver meal plans based on individual metabolic responses, training goals, and dietary restrictions, helping users optimize their diet for stable blood sugar and sustained energy.

Weight management and body composition tracking

Add smart scales data from Withings, Hume, and Renpho to fitness coaching and corporate wellness apps. Track weight, body fat percentage, muscle mass, bone density, and other bodily metrics through one integration. Coaches or MCP-powered AI chatbots can, in turn, use body composition trends to personalize workout plans and nutrition guidance, enhancing user experience and app value.

Diabetes management platforms

Connect to continuous glucose monitoring sensors like Dexcom, FreeStyle Libre, and others to provide users with instant readings, reduce manual data entry, establish trends, and send insulin reminder notifications. 

Remote patient monitoring

Health or medical apps can monitor vital body signals, such as blood pressure, and send alerts, notifications, establish trends, and prompt patients to book a consultation when the trends and values are outside the normal range. Combine data from lab reports, nutrition tracking, and wearable devices for an extensive health view.

Medical devices supported by the Spike IoT API

Spike IoT API supports a wide range of medical IoT devices across different health monitoring categories, all accessible through a single integration.

• CGM sensors: All Dexcom and Abbott FreeStyle Libre models. These continuous glucose monitors provide real-time diabetes management data with readings every 5-15 minutes. CGM integration is essential for diabetes management apps, metabolic health tracking, and nutrition optimization platforms.
• Blood pressure monitors: Omron, Withings, and other manufacturers. Access systolic, diastolic, and pulse readings with historical measurements for trend tracking. Blood pressure data is critical for hypertension management programs and preventive health apps.
• Smart scales: Withings, Hume, and Renpho. Measure weight, body fat percentage, muscle mass, and bone density, and other bodily metrics. Body composition tracking supports weight management programs, fitness coaching, and chronic disease monitoring.

Spike IoT API implementation process

Getting started with Spike IoT API involves a simple setup process with assistance from a dedicated implementation engineer. 

1. Setup steps: Review the documentation, set up the test environment, implement authentication flows for device connections, and integrate SDKs for real-time data or webhooks for backend notifications.
2. Data format: Standardized JSON with consistent field names across all device types. 
3. Maintenance: Spike handles provider API upgrades and new device releases. Integrations continue working without code changes on your end.

Whether you're building a diabetes management app, metabolic health platform, or corporate wellness program, Spike handles the complexity of device integrations so you can focus on building features that matter to your users. If you have any questions or want to get started with Spike, schedule a demo to discuss your needs.