rahul_agarwal

Really cool project! I'm very bullish on LLMs for structured data.

Curious - why did you decide to open source? It's neat to see a lot new YC open source companies. I'm curious why you thought open-sourcing superglue was strategically advantageous

Medplum (YC S22) | Engineering | SF Onsite | Full-time

We're an healthcare infra company that is untangling the gordian knot that is the U.S. healthcare system. We make an open-source platform that healthcare startups and hospitals alike can build on top of. We take care of the infrastructure, compliance, auth, interop, and data quality, so providers can focus on building amazing patient experiences.

We're a small team of repeat founders, and we've worked at places like Microsoft, One Medical, Palantir, Y Combinator, and Meta.

We're experiencing great customer growth and are hiring user-facing eng roles to keep up with demand:

- Developer Experience Engineer: https://www.medplum.com/careers/devex-engineer - Solutions Engineer: https://www.medplum.com/careers/solutions-engineer

If you want to make and impact on the healthcare industry, drop us a line at [email protected]

Yes it is! As we’ve worked with users, we’ve been continually impressed by how the FHIR spec handles complex real-world use cases. Because of this flexibility, we made the decision to store FHIR natively, rather than roll a custom schema under the hood and convert to FHIR on the fly.

That’s a great question! One of the reasons Medplum tries to keep it’s dependency footprint as small as possible is to reduce the possibility of introducing vulnerabilities through 3rd-party packages, and we try to default to large, battle tested dependencies. We also use automated tools like Dependabot to automatically scan our repositories for dependency upgrades.

Lastly as part of our SOC2 compliance we have systems in place where anyone can notify us of a security issue by emailing [email protected]

Sure! Firebase (https://firebase.google.com/) is what’s known as a Backend-as-a-Service platform. Offers a bunch of server-side services (including database storage, authentication, serverless edge functions, and image/media storage, etc.) hosted in the cloud and accessible via API. That way, application developers can focus on the user-facing experience, and use a standard platform for their backend.

Medplum expands on this concept by adding tools specific to digital health, such as a FHIR data schema for interoperability, EHR integration, and SMART App launching for embedding applications inside legacy EHRs