What does HIPAA-compliant development actually involve?

HIPAA doesn't certify individuals — it certifies processes and infrastructure. In practice that means AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS in transit, immutable audit logs, role-based access with minimum-necessary scope, session controls, and deployment on HIPAA-eligible infrastructure with signed BAAs. It's architecture, not a checkbox, which is why it has to exist from the first line of code rather than being retrofitted before an audit.

How do you integrate HL7 and FHIR?

HL7 v2 for the message feeds most hospital systems still speak — ADT, ORU, ORM — typically through Mirth Connect channels, and FHIR R4 APIs for modern EHR integration. OpenConnect applies exactly this: an HL7 gateway carrying 10,000+ clinical messages a day from 200+ hospital monitors into downstream clinical systems at 99% delivery.

Can you connect bedside monitors and medical devices?

Yes — that is what OpenConnect does for Fukuda Denshi USA's HealthMosaic ecosystem. Device telemetry is ingested, normalized to HL7, queued for reliability, and delivered downstream. It eliminated 95% of manual vitals entry, with estimated savings of roughly $400K a year.

How do you keep clinical integrations from failing silently?

Interface engines fail quietly — a stopped channel just means data stops arriving. The Mirth Connect monitoring dashboard I built watches 32 channels with alerting, and cut mean time to resolution from 3 hours to 30 minutes — 90% faster issue resolution. A channel outage should page someone, not sit unnoticed until a clinician asks where the results went.

Do you sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA)?

Yes. I sign BAAs as a Business Associate for healthcare projects involving PHI, covering the obligations under 45 CFR Part 164, and I ensure subprocessors (AWS, etc.) have signed BAAs in place as well.

What does a healthcare build cost?

Most engagements start around $5K; smaller well-scoped work is considered case-by-case. Book a call or email me and you'll have a reply within 24 hours.

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Healthcare Software Development

HIPAA-compliant. HL7 and FHIR. Proven in live clinical environments.

Healthcare software is judged in production, next to patients. OpenConnect — a HIPAA-compliant HL7 IoT gateway built for Fukuda Denshi USA's HealthMosaic ecosystem — moves 10,000+ clinical messages a day from 200+ hospital monitors at 99% delivery. That is the standard your project is held to.

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The challenge

Most healthcare software fails on compliance and integration, not code quality. HIPAA bolted on at the end costs multiples more and still leaves gaps, and HL7 interfaces that pass a test harness fall over against real hospital feeds. I build the compliance architecture and the integration layer first, because that is where healthcare projects live or die.

What I build

HL7 & FHIR Integration

HL7 v2 interfaces, FHIR R4 APIs, and Mirth Connect channels between EHRs, labs, and devices

Medical Device & IoT Gateways

Ingest vitals and telemetry from bedside monitors into clinical systems, reliably and at volume

Patient Portals

Secure, HIPAA-compliant patient-facing applications with role-based access

Practice Management SaaS

Scheduling, notes, billing, and admin workflows with per-tenant data isolation

Telehealth Platforms

Video consultations, appointment booking, and remote patient monitoring

Integration Monitoring

Dashboards and alerting for interface engines, so failures surface in minutes instead of days

Tech stack

TypeScriptNode.jsNext.jsPostgreSQLMirth ConnectHL7 v2FHIR R4AES-256AWS HIPAA-eligibleRedisDocker

Relevant work

How we work

Most MVPs ship in 3–6 weeks; complex platforms are scoped individually once the requirements are clear.

Intro Call

A 30-minute conversation about your project, goals, and timeline. No commitment either way.

Scoped Proposal

A written scope, architecture outline, and quote. I respond to every message within 24 hours.

Weekly Demos

You see working software every week, with written progress updates in between. No black boxes.

Ship & Handover

Deployment, documentation, and a clean handover — you own everything I build.

Compliance & standards

HIPAAHL7 v2FHIR R4GDPR Article 9 (health data)BAA-readySOC 2 ready

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