Michael Spigner
Michael Spigner, MD, is an EMS physician and prehospital informaticist — Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Prehospital Medicine Research and Informatics at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (Madison, WI).
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Aug 13, 2026
Tony FernandezPANELIST
And if you did offer to speak briefly about APIs, I think that would be great for this audience.
Michael SpignerGUEST
The interface part is basically a door, right? So what it basically an API is, is it is a door that you can access via program, via script that is an entrance into whatever the back end is.
Michael SpignerGUEST
In the case of Google Maps, it's a door to access their transportation model.
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MichaelHOST
So share a little bit about this graphic, but then maybe why Michael's sniff test failed him on this one.