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Medplum

Headless EHR
Electronic Health Record
by Principal Consultant
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Review Date
06/27/2023
Purchase Date
N/A
Implementation Time
4-6 months
Product Still in Use
Yes
Purchase Amount
Intent to Renew
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Use Case Fit
Ease of Use
API
Integrations
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Value

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Value-Based Care
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Acuity
Candid Health
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Summary

  • Product Usage: Medplum is an open source headless EHR, based on FHIR and is used by AlleyCorp Nord to assist early-stage startups in creating their initial products.

  • Strengths: Medplums transparent architecture technology approach, open source nature, and easy access to knowledgeable staff are its main strengths. It also extends FHIR to provide a unique authentication and authorization model at a very reasonable timeframe.

  • Weaknesses: Medplum is not yet a mature product and users might encounter unwanted behaviors or bugs. The FHIR specification is also not fully implemented in Medplum, particularly in the search model. The Medplum app, an admin panel, is too technical and limited so its not suitable for direct use by internal operations teams or clinicians.

  • Overall Judgment: Despite these limitations, the reviewer recommends using Medplum due to its overall modern, open-source approach, knowledgeable staff, and sensible architecture choice.

Review

Were talking about Medplum and how its used by your company, specifically, in helping other companies implement Medplum. Before we jump into that, could you give just a brief overview of your company and what your role is there?

Im a Principal Consultant for AlleyCorp Nord. We specialize in helping very early stage startups get to their initial MVP and we try to help those startups with early concepts, product implementation, and strategy all the way to series A or B. We really focus on bringing engineering resources and helping companies in developing and delivering a product in the early phases. And in the event that they succeed, we help them transition to other partners and companies. We want to stay focused on the early stage. And we provide fractional CTOs, staff, senior, and intermediate engineers, and product designers as well. Weve chosen to specialize in three different areas: one is healthcare, which is where we have our largest portfolio so far. And we also specialize in robotics and artificial intelligence.

That makes sense. And so it sounds like you have worked with a couple of different companies for whom youve implemented Medplum. Id be curious to see when those decisions or purchases happen? And how long have you been working with Medplum with these two companies?

So from the first time we encountered the product until now, we have about two years of experience with Medplum across two different clients. Both times, we were involved in selecting the product and recommending Medplum. Since we work with early stage startups, the decision was made very early in the process, because its really to support our initial implementation. Given the fact that we are very much at the beginning of the life of those companies, they sometimes do not even have a strong vision of what the product or business model is. Most of the time they havent found it when we start building the product. We know that what we do is temporary; it has to be a good balance of efficiency versus scalability. All the while, knowing that if they succeed, were going to need to revisit every single decision because we do not prioritize scale, we prioritize “lets get something out of the door” because that is enough to start operating and convince investors to go forward.

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