Using Drupal to create a digital patient education experience at Memorial Sloan Kettering

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Memorial Sloan Kettering converts a paper education library into live HTML resources that generate on-demand PDFs, sync nightly with Lexicomp medication leaflets via FTP, and let clinicians bundle and send resources to patients through the patient portal. Implementation uses Drupal 8, Lingotek for translations, Algolia/InstantSearch front end, and HTML→PDF tooling (WKHTMLTOPDF plus Ghostscript for page counts and PDF bundling). The site reaches 87% of content available in Spanish and Russian, supports print-on-demand and large-font PDFs, and materially reduces printed stock.

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