Medplum will be at HIMSS on April 17-19, 2023 participating in the HIMSS23 Cancer Care: Treating the Whole Person Demonstration hosted by the CDC in McCormick Place, North Building Hall B, Booth 7649.

Today, we received a thoughtful email from an engineering leader who installed Medplum for the first time:

This guide is for customers who are self-hosting Medplum, and this post assumes that your installation was complete and successful. We will refer to your base installation as $domainName, and this refers to the domain on which the Medplum app is running, for example on hosted Medplum the domain is app.medplum.com.

Data privacy, locality, governance and compliance are huge issues in healthcare, and that's why we at Medplum support self-hosting. For those running on AWS, we use Aurora RDS, which supports auto-scaling. A common question we get is - how big is my database going to be?

We are excited to hear about the release of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources FHIR R5, the latest version of the healthcare data interoperability standard. This new version builds on the previous versions of FHIR and incorporates new features and improvements to further support healthcare data exchange and interoperability.

Patient deduplication is a tough problem, and there are many approaches to implementing a deduplication program. We provide this guide and sample code as a resource to teams who want to run a continuous deduplication program that is powered by automation and highly auditable.

Great workflow apps are core for us at Medplum, and we provide tools to build highly ergonomic asynchronous task tracking systems providers. Some examples of task management apps in the medical context are apps that:

• Review and approve lab reports
• Approve or reject medication refill requests
• Instantiate custom care plans for a patient

We're hiring! Check out the new Careers page.

As we close out 2022, the Medplum team would love to thank our customers and community for joining us on this journey.

Composability is the ability of different components or systems to be combined and work together seamlessly. This allows developers to build on existing open source software to create new applications and solutions that meet their specific needs.