Field notes on where health system design meets the patient it was designed for.
The policy doesn’t bend. The patient does. What standing between the systems office and the clinical floor taught me about designing health systems for the people who live with them.
Start here if you're... A clinician or nurse Begin with Edge Cases: the moments the system didn't expect. Edge Cases An engineer or implementer Begin with Standards: FHIR, coding and interoperability, plainly explained. Standards A health manager Begin with Implementation: what really happens when systems meet the floor. Implementation
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Filter by tag All tags Claims & payments (4) Clinical workflows (3) Coding & data quality (1) Implementation & change (1) Interoperability (2) Patient identity & records (3) People & teams (0) N 2 T
Standards Interoperability · 3 min
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Edge Cases Patient identity & records · 6 min
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Field Notes Claims & payments · 5 min
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Edge Cases Claims & payments · 4 min
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Written by Jacinta Gichuhi , who has acquired significant experience building health information systems used Kenya and other Global South Countries. More about my work →
