This post is from an on-going series from our engineering blog, Shift6, which features developer-focused content. For the first part of the Redox Microservices Journey series, click here; for the second, click here. 

At Redox, we're taking a pragmatic approach to building microservices, especially in how we handle cross-cutting concerns. Most refer to this part of a microservice ecosystem as the chassis—things that every microservice needs to have in order for us to be confident that it's a quality product. The chassis includes:

Last December, I published a blog post outlining “7 Bold Predictions for Healthcare in 2017”. As 2017 comes to a close, let’s look back and see whether any of my predictions actually came true.

This week, our main focus is mental health, AI, and calls for innovation in areas where the current “state of the art” is, at best, low-tech. Plus, some interesting stuff around the human genome! Here’s the...

Ashley Moulton Hanks believes in making information sharing a key component of a patient’s clinical trial journey. As Verily’s resident Clinical Data Manager, thinking about the percent of data capture patients typically don’t share is where Ashley finds significant opportunities to paint wider pictures of the ability to detect and prevent disease.

This post is from an on-going series from our engineering blog, Shift6, which features developer-focused content. For the first part of the Redox Microservices Journey series, click here. 

Heather Bowerman is on the brink of launching the first saliva test for endometriosis, a condition that affects 176 million women worldwide. Normally diagnosed via a surgical procedure called laparoscopy, Bowerman's team at DotLab developed an innovative test that replaces the invasive procedure with a simple saliva sample. An emerging presence in healthcare, Goldman Sachs named her one of the Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2017.

Hello again, and welcome to our roundup of news items about healthcare technology.  

It is often difficult to keep up with the news these days, primarily due to the sheer volume new information available on a daily basis. This holds true even when one narrows the field to news specifically related to healthcare and the way technology constantly reshapes it—and parsing through it to get to the news that actually matters complicates things even further.

This post is excerpted from our whitepaper "The Bottleneck Problem: How Traditional Integration Stifles Innovation and Prohibits Health Systems from Maximizing Return on their EHR Investment". 

This past week, I’ve been at America’s Health Insurance Plan’s (AHIP) National Conferences on Medicare and Medicaid in Washington, DC. It’s been jam-packed with speakers representing health plans from across the country, software vendors, service providers, lobbyists, and government relations.

You may have heard the rumblings of the return of the wearable coming in 2018. From biometric sensors to cellular capabilities, Silicon Valley hype-monsters are quick to flaunt all of the cool new functionality coming to a wrist near you.

Building technology that has anything to do with healthcare can be a daunting task for developers—every system you connect to might have a different way of sending data (TCP, MLLP, HTTP, SFTP, etc) and a different format for the data itself (HL7v2, FHIR, JSON, XML, PDF, etc).