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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Ideas for open health infrastructure.
Field notes, proposals, and implementation ideas for public agencies, health systems, developers, standards leaders, and patient advocates working toward reusable public-good software.
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Upgrading SSN: A Proposal for Adding Checkdigits to US National Identifiers
A concrete example of the foundation's work: pragmatic public infrastructure proposals that improve data quality, reduce avoidable errors, and can be evaluated, implemented, and reused in the open.
Upgrading SSN: A Proposal for Adding Checkdigits to US National Identifiers
Social Security Numbers, FEINs, and ITINs share the same number of digits and have no built-in way to sanity-check themselves. A Luhn checkdigit — already used for credit cards and National Provider Identifiers — could fix that.
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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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