Oscar Tech
Insights from Oscar Health's data, engineering, product, and design teams
A Guide to Mini-Hackathons
A Guide to Mini-Hackathons
How we conceive, build, and ship within 8 hours at Oscar
Our New and Improved Open Enrollment Digital Onboarding Experience
Our New and Improved Open Enrollment Digital Onboarding Experience
Co-authored by Sara Wajnberg, SVP Product, and Duncan Greenberg, Director of Product
Documents OCR: Improving Efficiency by Making PDFs Searchable
Documents OCR: Improving Efficiency by Making PDFs Searchable
What’s the first thing you do when you open a PDF? Start reading the whole thing, or skim for the information you need? Unfortunately…
From Hackathon to Production: How to Turn Your Hackathon Idea into Reality
From Hackathon to Production: How to Turn Your Hackathon Idea into Reality
…without working nights and weekends.
What’s it like to be an engineer at Oscar?
What’s it like to be an engineer at Oscar?
Contrary to popular belief, there’s more to working at a tech company than free snacks and ping pong tables (both of which, yes, Oscar does…
Machine Learning, Virtual Care, and a New Kind of Back End: Using Tech to Tackle Health Care’s Most…
Machine Learning, Virtual Care, and a New Kind of Back End: Using Tech to Tackle Health Care’s Most…
Yesterday, our CEO and co-founder Mario Schlosser shared that Alphabet plans to invest $375 million into Oscar — an investment that will…
Six lessons learned by creating a design system at a fast-moving start-up
Six lessons learned by creating a design system at a fast-moving start-up
Oscar builds digital tools for a range of users, including members, providers, brokers, employers, and a wide array of Oscar employees…
An Equal Partnership Between Tech and Business
An Equal Partnership Between Tech and Business
How Oscar’s tech and business teams work hand-in-hand
Building our own Continuous Integration System
Building our own Continuous Integration System
As young software companies grow and mature, most reach a point where they decide to adopt continuous integration: a practice in which…
Centralizing our Doctor Data
Centralizing our Doctor Data
How to build infrastructure with the end user in mind
A/B Testing for better health care
A/B Testing for better health care
How small changes can make big differences
We can confirm: this was a particularly bad flu season
We can confirm: this was a particularly bad flu season
Oscar Health’s flu season analysis
Building a Component Library from Scratch
Building a Component Library from Scratch
How Oscar used React and CSS Modules to build a flexible component library for its many front-ends
Accelerating access to care through secure messaging
Accelerating access to care through secure messaging
This article was co-written and designed by Gabrielle Williams
Oscar and Cleveland Clinic make FHIR a feature
Oscar and Cleveland Clinic make FHIR a feature
Data exchange in health care is difficult, but Oscar and Cleveland Clinic are using a new standard called FHIR to remove some of the…
Oscar hosts Women in Health Tech Event
Oscar hosts Women in Health Tech Event
This blog post has been slightly adapted and reposted from Nomad Health’s Blog.
Implementing Hashicorp Vault at Oscar
Implementing Hashicorp Vault at Oscar
Part of a Site Reliability Engineer’s job is to evaluate the right moment when a piece of infrastructure needs to be replaced with a new…
Hacking at Oscar
Hacking at Oscar
Developing a Thrift wrapping solution for Go during Oscar’s hackathon
Designing a better provider search experience
Designing a better provider search experience
The struggle is real when it comes to finding a new doctor. It’s not enough to discover someone who treats your specific health issue and…
Searching for care with simple terms
Searching for care with simple terms
How we built a more accessible search function to help people find the care they need
