How biology and the peculiarities of medical recordkeeping make life difficult for programmers
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The article examines how biology and medical recordkeeping quirks create headaches for programmers working on healthcare software. It focuses on practical data-modeling and workflow problems such as identifiers, age calculations, dates, and edge cases in patient records. The piece also highlights how messy real-world healthcare processes force software systems to handle exceptions and imperfect data. Overall, it is a developer-oriented discussion of the complexity of building healthcare applications.
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