Medical Messaging: An Elixir For Healthcare
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Team builds and ships an open-source Elixir stack for healthcare: elixir_hl7 on Hex, an MLLP library on GitHub and a work-in-progress FHIR parser; they process millions of HL7 messages and run a sepsis alert pipeline that statistically prevents roughly 5,000 lives saved over three years. Implementation details: HL7 parsed into nested lists, CSS-selector–style query API, XSD doc generation failure (30 GB RAM, 40 minutes) led to pragmatic parsing, and Lua sandboxing handles business logic safely.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to healthcare tech
- 3:50History of EHR systems
- 11:29Current integration challenges
- 17:41Elixir adoption in healthcare
- 25:22HL7 parsing with Elixir
- 33:02Future with FHIR and actor model
- 38:41Q&A on FHIR and vendor relations
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