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by gesman 2419 days ago
I involved in building 2 systems for healthcare:

Patient privacy monitoring (ensure no one peeks into patient records inappropriately) and medication analytics platform (monitors suspicious and anomalous activity related to drugs and opioids diversion).

This of course deals with multitude of different systems, EMR's, data formats, legacy-everything etc, but the GREAT about this whole thing - is opportunity.

No one really tackled a challenge of visibility across different systems and data formats in Healthcare and it's lots of fun to be part of that.

("Fun" is non-corporate word - but it still fun!)

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re: privacy monitoring

I prototyped an access logger based on tamper evident logs, which used rolling hash codes. Precursor to this blockchain mania.

re: visibility

I'm still bullish on the Translucent Database thesis. TLDR: Use the password salt + hash technique to encrypt data at rest at the record level.

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Source: Designed, implemented, supported 5 regional healthcare exchanges. eg Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX): https://www.itnonline.com/content/medplus-implement-clinical...