2d ago · 7 min read · FHIR for Software Engineers (Not Just Healthcare Devs) FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) sounds intimidating. It has its own specification site, a 400-page standard, and a community full of people who say "bundle" and "resource" like ...
Join discussionMar 16 · 4 min read · How to Parse HL7 Messages and Convert to FHIR R4 Programmatically HL7 v2 is the most widely used healthcare messaging standard in the world. Despite being decades old, it still carries the majority of clinical data between hospitals, labs, pharmacies...
Join discussionFeb 10 · 5 min read · Narrative First, Structure Later Clinical trial protocols are meticulously written, reviewed, and approved documents. They’re designed to be read by investigators, regulators, and patients. That makes sense — if I’m considering whether to participate...
Join discussionJan 19 · 7 min read · ← Part 3: Dynamic Mapping Engine Trust, But Verify (Then Log Everything) In healthcare IT, "it works" isn't enough. You need to prove: Who accessed data What they accessed When they accessed it Why (in some cases) That you can reconstruct what h...
Join discussionJan 13 · 7 min read · ← Part 2: Multi-Tenant Architecture The Legacy Database Problem Here's a real example from one of our tenants: Hospital A stores patients like this: CREATE TABLE pacientes ( id_paciente INT PRIMARY KEY, rut_pac VARCHAR(12), nom_pac VARCHA...
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Jan 12 · 4 min read · In the world of modern healthcare IT, “interoperability” is often treated as a buzzword. But for CTOs and Engineering Managers operating in highly regulated European markets, interoperability is a high-stakes engineering challenge. Recently, I led a ...
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Jan 5 · 5 min read · The Multi-Tenancy Challenge Imagine you're running a SaaS application. Now imagine that application handles the most sensitive data possible: medical records. Now imagine that a single bug could expose Patient A's cancer diagnosis to Hospital B. That...
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Jan 5 · 4 min read · The Problem: Healthcare Data in Silos Healthcare systems are a mess. I don't mean that lightly—after years of working with legacy hospital databases, I've seen it all: patient data stored in decades-old MySQL schemas (or even Microsoft Access), custo...
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