Blog

Notes from the infrastructure, not the sales deck.

Practical guides on healthcare data lakes, patient identity resolution, FHIR/HL7v2 interoperability, document intelligence, and research data systems — written from doing the work, not marketing it.

Interoperability

EMPI for Health Departments: Why Patient Matching Breaks at Scale

Why patient matching quietly fails as systems multiply, and how an EMPI built on OpenCR/HAPI FHIR fixes it without a proprietary license.

Interoperability

FHIR vs. HL7v2: What Health IT Teams Actually Need to Support

HL7v2 isn't dead and FHIR isn't a drop-in replacement. A practical guide to what your interoperability layer actually needs to support.

AI & Automation

Document Intelligence for Healthcare: Structured Data from Lab Reports and Faxes

A practical look at building an OCR/document-intelligence pipeline for lab reports, faxes, and clinical paperwork — without per-page SaaS fees eating the budget.

Strategy

Open Source vs. Commercial Healthcare IT: A Real Cost Comparison

A grounded, category-by-category cost comparison between commercial healthcare IT platforms and open-source alternatives — including where commercial still wins.

AI & Automation

Where AI Actually Helps in Healthcare IT (and Where It Doesn't)

Practical, non-hype guide to where AI genuinely improves healthcare IT operations — document processing, data quality, and automation — and where it doesn't belong yet.

REDCap & Research Data

REDCap Cloud Alternative: Managed Hosting Without Per-Project Fees

REDCap Cloud's per-project pricing punishes growing research programs. Here's how flat-rate, self-managed infrastructure compares.

REDCap & Research Data

REDCap Hosting for Nonprofits: A Practical Guide

A practical guide for nonprofits evaluating REDCap hosting — licensing eligibility, realistic budget ranges, and what actually matters.

REDCap & Research Data

How to Choose a REDCap Hosting Provider: 7 Questions to Ask

Seven concrete questions to ask any REDCap hosting provider before signing — covering compliance, environments, and licensing.

Compliance

REDCap HIPAA Compliance: What Your Institution Actually Needs

A practical breakdown of what actually makes a REDCap environment HIPAA compliant — infrastructure, agreements, and administrative controls.

Getting Started

The REDCap Consortium License Explained

A clear walkthrough of how the REDCap consortium license actually works — eligibility, the request process, and common misconceptions.