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by robertlagrant 757 days ago
Well done with the launch. This is a tricky space, but if successful you will be very successful.

A health platform I helped build was open sourced[0] (the apps built on it are closed source and deployed in NHS trusts). Feel free to dig around for any inspiration :-)

[0] https://github.com/polaris-foundation
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dgoncharov 757 days ago
Thank you! Glad to see more open-source in healthcare - was the idea here sort of like a reusable EHR backend for building digital health products? I see some mention of HAPI FHIR in the repo as well.
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robertlagrant 757 days ago
Yes it was - it was internal to our company, but the apps got sold off when the business downsized. The engineering team lobbied to have the main backend open sourced, partly because it made the divestment of the apps built on it easier.

The architecture was that that was a backend for apps, and the individual apps would host a stateless BFF service to translate the backend into what they needed, and then the web/mobile apps would talk to that. HAPI FHIR was integrated for testing reasons; it also spoke HL7v2, for our sins.

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adwf 757 days ago
Was there anything else at Sensyne that could have been open-sourced and/or of value to the community?

I may be in a position to open some of that up before it's lost.

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robertlagrant 756 days ago
I'm curious :-)

I think the only other useful thing that wasn't added to the Foundation was some HL7 integration code that would sit in a customer environment and forward on requests to that backend securely. I believe that moved on with the software that it was primarily developed for, though, which is an in-hospital tablet based system for recording patient observations.

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