Thoughts on EHR integration, healthcare technology, and building infrastructure for healthcare builders.
Healthcare AI agents can talk, but most can't touch the EHR. The hard part isn't the model. It's the last mile: real-time read and write to the systems where schedules and billing live.
Traditional interoperability platforms sell you software and services. Cobalt is a unified API. The result: lower cost, faster implementation, and more flexibility.
eClinicalWorks schedule slots can be set up in wildly different ways. Here's how to handle availability across hundreds of clinics without losing your mind.
Every manual login, every screen scrape that breaks, every new client onboarding that takes weeks. For RCM companies, the integration tax is embedded in every transaction.
Your two best engineers aren't working on your product. They're debugging HL7 messages and reverse-engineering EHR documentation. This is the integration tax.
Every time a PE-backed practice group acquires a clinic, there's a cost nobody budgets for. It compounds with every deal.