aid: empatica
name: Empatica
description: 'Empatica Inc. is an MIT Media Lab spinoff, founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
  that builds FDA-cleared medical wearables — EmbracePlus, EmbraceMini and the EpiMonitor
  epilepsy monitoring system — together with the Empatica Health Monitoring Platform,
  a cloud platform for continuous, remote physiological data collection in clinical
  research and patient monitoring. The platform captures raw sensor streams (PPG/blood
  volume pulse, electrodermal activity, skin temperature, accelerometer, gyroscope,
  steps, systolic peaks, participant tags) and derives 300+ digital measures used as
  digital endpoints by pharmaceutical sponsors and CROs. Programmatic access is delivered
  three ways: a cloud-to-cloud Cloud API that pushes participant management, wearing
  compliance and digital biomarker data into a sponsor''s CTMS/EDC; an AWS S3 data
  bucket addressed with Care Portal-issued Data Access Keys, where high-frequency raw
  data lands every 30 minutes as Apache Avro files; and a live REST host at api.empatica.com
  backing Empatica''s own apps and portals. The Cloud API reference is issued only
  to contracted clients, so no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or public API reference is published.'
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/empatica/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Healthcare
- Digital Health
- Wearables
- Medical Devices
- Clinical Trials
- Remote Patient Monitoring
- Digital Biomarkers
- Life Sciences
- Sensor Data
apis:
- aid: empatica-cloud-api
  name: Empatica Cloud API
  description: 'Cloud-to-cloud API that connects Empatica Health Monitoring Platform
    data to a sponsor''s or CRO''s own clinical trial systems in real time. Documented
    capabilities: participant onboarding from external systems using existing participant
    IDs, participant status management including early and full termination, wearing
    detection and compliance data, and access to raw and digital biomarker data delivered
    as CSV and Apache Avro. Announced September 2024. Empatica states that full developer
    documentation is provided to Cloud API clients only, so no public reference, base
    URL or machine-readable contract is published.'
  humanURL: https://www.empatica.com/cloud-api/
  tags:
  - Clinical Trials
  - Digital Biomarkers
  - Data Integration
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.empatica.com/cloud-api/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.empatica.com/blog/cloud-api-revolutionizing-data-integration-for-clinical-trials/
- aid: empatica-platform-api
  name: Empatica Platform API (api.empatica.com)
  description: 'Live REST host observed at https://api.empatica.com/v2/ that backs
    Empatica''s mobile apps and web portals. Probed anonymously on 2026-08-12: POST
    /v2/login answers a JSON error envelope, GET /v2/users/me and /v2/devices require
    a bearer token, and the CORS preflight advertises the custom request headers x-emp-app-name,
    x-emp-app-version, x-emp-app-platform and elastic-apm-traceparent. Empatica publishes
    no public reference, OpenAPI or developer portal for this host — everything recorded
    here about it is probe evidence, not documentation.'
  humanURL: https://www.empatica.com/platform/home/
  baseURL: https://api.empatica.com/v2/
  tags:
  - REST
  - Undocumented
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/empatica-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/empatica-error-codes.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/empatica-rate-limits.yml
- aid: empatica-cloud-data-access
  name: Empatica Cloud Data Access (S3)
  description: 'The primary programmatic data interface for the Empatica Health Monitoring
    Platform. High-frequency raw data from EmbracePlus is uploaded to the Empatica
    Cloud every 30 minutes and made available in an organization-scoped AWS S3 bucket
    (s3://bucket-name/version/dir-name/) as Apache Avro files named [participant_id]_[utc_timestamp_start].avro.
    Access is authorized with Data Access Keys — an AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access
    Key generated and revoked from the Data Access Keys page of the Care Portal, with
    a maximum of two active key sets per account. Any S3-capable client works: Cyberduck,
    AWS CLI v2, or the AWS SDKs.'
  humanURL: https://support.empatica.com/hc/en-us/articles/13879014347421-Accessing-Data-on-the-S3-Bucket
  tags:
  - Raw Data
  - Avro
  - S3
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.empatica.com/hc/en-us/articles/13879014347421-Accessing-Data-on-the-S3-Bucket
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/empatica-authentication.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/empatica-data-model.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/empatica-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.empatica.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.empatica.com/manuals/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://support.empatica.com/hc/en-us/articles/13796731471261-Basic-steps-to-start-data-collection
- type: Support
  url: https://support.empatica.com/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.empatica.com/submitrequest/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.empatica.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/empatica
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.empatica.com/store/platform-professional/
- type: Login
  url: https://care.empatica.com/login
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.empatica.com/start-care/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.empatica.com/purchase-agreement/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.empatica.com/privacy/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.empatica.com/legal/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.empatica.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://www.empatica.com/research/e4-sunset/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/empatica-llms.txt
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/empatica-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/empatica-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/empatica-error-codes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/empatica-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/empatica-conformance.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/empatica-trust-center.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/empatica-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/empatica-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/empatica-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/empatica-rate-limits.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 14
  pass: local-v1