althea 0.0.1

ALgoriTHms Exposed through a RESTful API .

# althea ALgoriTHms Exposed through a RESTful API 

althos: “healing”

## Purpose The purpose of this application is to make exposing algorithms via a RESTful API easier. After a clinical risk algorithm has been vetted, there are potentially many consumers of this algorithm. For instance, other researchers may be interested in coming up with new state-of-the-art algorithms, clinical operations may wish to use the algorithm to identify cohorts for studies, or in the case of computable phenotypes, real-time event detection. By exposing the algorithm via a RESTful API, we enable all consumers of the algorithm(s) to utilize the power of the algorithm. In the past, the algorithm had to be coded in whatever language each consumer used most often (e.g. SAS, PHP, JavaScript, etc.). Now each consumer can call one central source of truth, ensuring reproducibility and consistency.

##Installation At this time, althea is purely a python package. It is our hope to allow submission of other types of code in the future. Two avenues for installation are available:

####github ` git clone https://github.com/benneely/althea.git cd ./althea python setup.py install `

####pip ` pip install althea `