Heska

Heska is a veterinary diagnostics company that makes in-clinic point-of-care lab analyzers and imaging for veterinary practices - chemistry (Element DC/DCX/RC/RCX), hematology (Element HT5), blood gas and electrolytes (Element POC), immunodiagnostics (Element i), coagulation (Element COAG), and AI-guided urine/fecal/blood-morphology testing (Element AIM) - plus the HeskaView Connect lab data and workflow software. Heska was acquired by Antech Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated (Mars Petcare / Mars Science & Diagnostics), in 2023, and now operates as an Antech company. Heska exposes a partner-gated integration API that bidirectionally connects its analyzers to veterinary practice information management systems (PIMS/EMR) - orders flow out to the analyzers and results flow back into the patient record - but there is no public, self-service developer portal, published API reference, OpenAPI, or public pricing. Access is provisioned to approved integration partners (ezyVet, Instinct, Vetspire, NectarVet, Digitail, and others) via API Partner credentials.

Heska is listed with 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Veterinary, Diagnostics, Animal Health, Point of Care, and Lab Analyzers.

Heska’s developer surface includes documentation and 5 more developer resources.

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9.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0 · Show this score on your site →

3 APIs

Veterinary Diagnostics Animal Health Point of CareLab AnalyzersPartner APIAntechMars

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 9.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 2.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Veterinary & Pet Care	builds-on	17.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes. MODELED: a real API behind a partner or contract gate; there is no public reference, so API Evangelist drew its shape. NOT AN API: a product area with no API behind it, not counted.

Heska Lab Orders API

Partner-gated integration surface for placing point-of-care laboratory orders from a practice information management system to Heska in-clinic analyzers. A completed order in th...

MODELED, NO PUBLIC REFERENCE

Heska Analyzer Results API

Partner-gated integration surface for returning completed analyzer results back into the ordering PIMS patient record. HeskaView Connect provides consolidated reports, unlimited...

MODELED, NO PUBLIC REFERENCE

Heska Patients API

Partner-gated integration surface for associating a lab order and its results with a patient/owner record so diagnostic charts are created and updated automatically in the integ...

MODELED, NO PUBLIC REFERENCE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Heska Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Registration

Registration

Source (apis.yml)

aid: heska
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/heska/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
name: Heska
kind: company
description: Heska is a veterinary diagnostics company that makes in-clinic point-of-care lab analyzers and imaging for veterinary
  practices - chemistry (Element DC/DCX/RC/RCX), hematology (Element HT5), blood gas and electrolytes (Element POC), immunodiagnostics
  (Element i), coagulation (Element COAG), and AI-guided urine/fecal/blood-morphology testing (Element AIM) - plus the HeskaView
  Connect lab data and workflow software. Heska was acquired by Antech Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated (Mars
  Petcare / Mars Science & Diagnostics), in 2023, and now operates as an Antech company. Heska exposes a partner-gated integration
  API that bidirectionally connects its analyzers to veterinary practice information management systems (PIMS/EMR) - orders
  flow out to the analyzers and results flow back into the patient record - but there is no public, self-service developer
  portal, published API reference, OpenAPI, or public pricing. Access is provisioned to approved integration partners (ezyVet,
  Instinct, Vetspire, NectarVet, Digitail, and others) via API Partner credentials.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - url: https://www.heska.com/
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://www.antechdiagnostics.com/in-house-diagnostics/ — a different registrable
      domain (heska.com -> antechdiagnostics.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/heska.png
tags:
- Veterinary
- Diagnostics
- Animal Health
- Point of Care
- Lab Analyzers
- Partner API
- Antech
- Mars
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-07-05'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: heska:heska-lab-orders-api
  endpointsModeled: true
  name: Heska Lab Orders API
  tags:
  - Order
  - Point of Care
  - Analyzers
  - Partner API
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  - Point of Care
  - Analyzers
  - Partner API
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.ezyvet.com/en/see-all-integrations/diagnostic-tests/heska
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.ezyvet.com/en/see-all-integrations/diagnostic-tests/heska
    type: Documentation
  description: Partner-gated integration surface for placing point-of-care laboratory orders from a practice information management
    system to Heska in-clinic analyzers. A completed order in the PIMS triggers a request to the analyzer to run the selected
    panel. No public API reference, base URL, or OpenAPI is published; endpoints are modeled from documented partner integration
    behavior (ezyVet, Instinct) and are not verified against a public specification.
- aid: heska:heska-analyzer-results-api
  endpointsModeled: true
  name: Heska Analyzer Results API
  tags:
  - Results
  - Analyzers
  - Diagnostics
  - Partner API
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.heska.com/product/heskaview-connect/
  properties:
  - url: https://www.heska.com/product/heskaview-connect/
    type: Documentation
  description: Partner-gated integration surface for returning completed analyzer results back into the ordering PIMS patient
    record. HeskaView Connect provides consolidated reports, unlimited analyzer connections, rapid retrieval, and bidirectional
    communication so results upload automatically into patient files. No public API reference, base URL, or OpenAPI is published;
    endpoints are modeled from documented partner integration behavior and are not verified against a public specification.
- aid: heska:heska-patients-api
  endpointsModeled: true
  name: Heska Patients API
  tags:
  - Patients
  - Records
  - PIMS
  - Partner API
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://careville.instinct.vet/instinct-emr/instinct-emr-user-manuals/integrations/heska-point-of-care-diagnostics/
  properties:
  - url: https://careville.instinct.vet/instinct-emr/instinct-emr-user-manuals/integrations/heska-point-of-care-diagnostics/
    type: Documentation
  description: Partner-gated integration surface for associating a lab order and its results with a patient/owner record so
    diagnostic charts are created and updated automatically in the integrating EMR. No public API reference, base URL, or
    OpenAPI is published; this is modeled from documented partner integration behavior and is not verified against a public
    specification.
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/antech-diagnostics/
  name: Antech Diagnostics
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: Heska was acquired by Antech Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated (Mars Petcare / Mars Science &
    Diagnostics), in 2023, and now operates as an Antech company.
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/heska-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heska-corporation
- type: Website
  url: https://www.heska.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://customerportal.heska.com/
- type: Registration
  url: https://registration.heska.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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