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Practical notes on patient access, identity, and public health infrastructure.

Field notes, explainers, and implementation ideas for patients, families, states, health systems, and public-sector teams trying to make health data more useful and trustworthy.

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Service Discovery Strategies for the U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem

A policy-oriented article on using well-known URLs, FHIR metadata, JWTs, JWKS, and signed software statements to make health care endpoints, directories, and trusted applications easier to discover and verify.

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Service Discovery Strategies for the U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem

A practical strategy for helping states, agencies, payers, HIEs, health systems, and trusted apps publish authoritative discovery metadata at predictable URLs.

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How to download and analyze your own health records using Claude AI

Step-by-step instructions for connecting to supported patient portals, sending downloaded health records to Claude Desktop, and asking for summaries, medication lists, and visit preparation help.

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