Sweden exports digital health. KRY runs primary care by video across four countries and operates as Livi in the UK and France. Natural Cycles was the first birth-control app the FDA cleared. Flow Neuroscience got FDA approval for the first at-home tDCS treatment for depression. Neko Health builds its own body-scanning hardware in Stockholm and is opening clinics in three countries.
Between all of them, the catalog holds five APIs — and all five belong to one company.
The cohort
Eleven Swedish providers on APIs.io carry a health tag. Here is every one of them, with what it publishes:
| Provider | What it does | APIs |
|---|---|---|
| Sectra | Enterprise imaging platform (PACS/VNA) for radiology and pathology | 5 |
| KRY | LIVI | Digital primary care across Sweden, Norway, the UK and France | 0 |
| Min Doktor | Online primary care, one of Sweden’s first digital-first providers | 0 |
| Natural Cycles | FDA-cleared, CE-marked Class IIb contraception app | 0 |
| Neko Health | Preventive full-body scanning, own hardware, own clinics | 0 |
| Flow Neuroscience | FDA-approved at-home tDCS headset for depression | 0 |
| Hormona | At-home hormone testing and tracking | 0 |
| FirstVet | 24/7 veterinary video consultations in seven countries | 0 |
| Essity | Hygiene and health group — TENA, Tork, Leukoplast, JOBST | 0 |
| Lassie | Pet insurance with preventive-care incentives | 0 |
| KRY | The Swedish-market entity behind the Livi brand | 0 |
| KRY appears twice because the catalog holds both its Swedish entity and the KRY | LIVI group record; treat it as one company and the cohort is ten. Either way, ten of the eleven records publish nothing machine-readable at all. That is not an oversight in the profiling — it is what these companies are. Most are consumer or clinical products, several carrying an FDA clearance or a CE mark, and a regulated medical device with a patient app does not need a public API to be a serious business. |
What Sectra publishes is the actual finding
Sectra’s five entries are worth reading closely, because none of them is a developer portal:
- DICOMweb — QIDO-RS, WADO-RS and STOW-RS for querying, retrieving and storing imaging studies
- HL7 Integration Interface — orders and results messaging
- FHIRcast — clinical context synchronization across applications
- IHE XDS — cross-enterprise document sharing
- Web Content API — embedding third-party applications into the diagnostic viewer
Every one of those is a healthcare interoperability standard, deployed per site and gated behind a customer or partner agreement. There is no self-service signup, no key, no public base URL. The integration surface is real and substantial — it simply does not look like an API program, and no amount of crawling developer portals will find it.
This is the pattern worth carrying out of Sweden: in care delivery, the API layer is a standards layer. DICOM, HL7, FHIR and IHE are the integration contract, and they are negotiated through procurement rather than published through a portal. Discovery tooling built for /developers pages sees an empty sector where there is actually a dense one.
Sweden knows how to ship APIs
The contrast inside the same country page makes the point. Depict publishes 35 indexed APIs, Telia 24, Klarna 21 — scoring in the exemplar band — Bokio 16, Fortnox 12, Sana 11, IFS 7 and Safello 7.
So this is not a country that lacks API culture, and not one that lacks health-tech companies. It is a sector where the two have not met in public. Swedish fintech had a regulatory forcing function — PSD2 made the interface a legal obligation. Swedish care delivery has had no equivalent, so its interfaces stayed private.
Where the next pass looks
The companies above are the private half of Swedish healthcare. The public half — the national e-health layer that regional care providers actually integrate against — is not yet profiled in the catalog at all. Inera and 1177, E-hälsomyndigheten, Socialstyrelsen and Folkhälsomyndigheten sit on one side; the systems vendors that regional health authorities buy from, Cambio, Platform24 and Visiba Care, sit on the other, along with the medtech exporters Elekta, Getinge and Mölnlycke.
Twenty Swedish healthcare organizations are queued for profiling. Whether they publish anything callable is exactly the question, and we will report what we find rather than assume it — but if there is a public API surface under Swedish healthcare, that is where it lives, not on the consumer apps that made the sector famous.