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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.
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Security Advisory
PHP's October 2026 Critical RCE Fix: What to Do Today
Two unauthenticated remote code execution flaws in PHP itself, already being exploited. Who is exposed, how to check, and what to do if you can't update yet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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