Integrating medical imaging: DICOM, PACS, HL7 & FHIR
Imaging is its own world with its own standard. How DICOM, PACS, DICOMweb, and your HL7/FHIR interfaces fit together in a real radiology workflow.
Read article23 August 2026 · 7 min read
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Notes from the integration and infrastructure trenches
Practical, no-fluff writing on healthcare interoperability, cloud, DevOps, and security — from the team that builds and runs these systems.
Backups that actually restore: a database DR playbook
A backup you've never restored is a hope, not a plan. RPO/RTO, point-in-time recovery, why replication isn't a backup, and tested restores.
Read article22 August 2026 · 7 min read
Hardening Microsoft 365 for a healthcare team
Microsoft 365 is where the work — and the risk — lives. Locking down identity, email, devices, and data with Entra ID, Intune, Defender, and Purview.
Read article22 August 2026 · 7 min read
A pragmatic SOC 2 readiness roadmap for healthcare SaaS
SOC 2 isn't a certificate you buy — it's evidence your controls actually run. A grounded readiness roadmap for healthcare SaaS, and how it overlaps with HIPAA.
Read article21 August 2026 · 7 min read
Running Mirth Connect on Kubernetes without regrets
Containerising Mirth is easy; running it reliably on Kubernetes is where the details bite — persistence, message ordering, health checks, and config-as-code.
Read article18 August 2026 · 8 min read
TEFCA, QHINs, Carequality and CommonWell, explained
US health-data exchange has an alphabet soup of networks. What each one is, how they relate, where FHIR fits, and which you actually need.
Read article13 August 2026 · 7 min read
SMART on FHIR in plain English
OAuth for healthcare, minus the jargon: what SMART on FHIR is, how app authorisation works, and why it lets you integrate once instead of per-EHR.
Read article6 August 2026 · 5 min read
Terraform patterns for HIPAA-aligned cloud
Six Terraform patterns — remote state, modules, least-privilege IAM, encryption, scanning, and drift detection — that keep a HIPAA-aligned cloud consistent.
Read article5 August 2026 · 7 min read
A practical HIPAA checklist for AWS healthcare workloads
HIPAA on AWS isn't a switch you flip. A grounded checklist of the technical safeguards that matter most for healthcare workloads in the cloud.
Read article4 August 2026 · 6 min read
Five Mirth Connect practices that keep interfaces reliable in production
A channel that works in a demo isn't the same as one that survives production. Five habits that keep Mirth Connect interfaces reliable at volume.
Read article28 July 2026 · 7 min read
What a good HL7 interface specification looks like
Most integration pain comes from a missing spec, not from HL7. What a good HL7 interface specification actually contains.
Read article21 July 2026 · 6 min read
HL7 v2 vs FHIR: which to use for your healthcare integration
They come from the same standards body but solve different problems. A practical guide to choosing between HL7 v2 messaging and FHIR APIs.
Read article14 July 2026 · 6 min read