Meet our team of interoperability product managers, developers, experts, and operations & QA managers — Welcome to this two-part article explaining who are the people behind the interoperability at Lifen. In this first part, we’ll see what interoperability is in the first place, and how we are fixing it with our Cloud Integration Engine. Then we’ll meet our Interoperability Product Managers, Interoperability Experts, and Interoperability…

This is the story of how the frontend team at Lifen has dealt with FHIR as the main data structure for its client-facing applications. But the learnings in this article can apply to any complex, storage-oriented data structure. Being FHIR Native At Lifen, we are committed to being “FHIR Native”, and we have…

Introduction At Lifen we process medical PDF documents from thousands of clients. Those PDF documents come with a huge variety of layouts: We need to perform layout detection from this 2D grid of words to produce a coherent 1D sequence. …

Lifen’s mission is to make innovation seamless in the healthcare industry. We want to allow any organisation (public or private), any start up or any developer to contribute to and to improve the healthcare industry, by unbundling our internal APIs & Microservices and offering a platform to build better healthcare…

Co-authored with Maria Camila Santamaria (Head of HR@ Lifen) The big bang theory, the astrophysics one, not the hugely successful TV Show, is a cosmological model explained in the following statement (from Wikipedia) : The model describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of extremely high density and…

Lifen has built an AI-powered solution to streamline the exchange of medical documents between hospitals, private practitioners, and patients. With more and more use cases handled inside french hospitals, we plugged our system inside a lot of EHR solutions, to receive data to our platform. But with a constantly growing…

I participated recently in a webinar by our good friend James Agnew, who is behind the successful Open Source Hapi-FHIR project, to showcase our usage of Hapi-FHIR at Lifen and how FHIR (link, link) is now at the core of our system architecture and data modeling. In the presentation (video…

At Lifen, we took a bet 18 months ago, when we decided to migrate our entire data schemas to FHIR after having set up a FHIR API to handle communications with our partners and between our different apps. So far, we’ve been pretty happy with this decision, and we’re seeing…

Our engineering team is growing every week and as we are quite bullish on TDD with high test coverage (lowest score is 96% amongst our Rails apps) we rely heavily on CircleCI to check our work. When a build was failing, our previous approach, was to notify everyone in a…