ManningBooks

ManningBooks

Devtalk Sponsor

Healthcare IT: Build and run real-world health systems (Manning)

In this engaging book, author William Laolagi explores an end-to-end Electronic Health Record (EHR) application. You’ll appreciate how he demystifies industry standards like HL7 and FHIR and shows you how to integrate modern approaches like event-driven messaging and AI within regulatory boundaries.

William Laolagi

Healthcare IT explores what it actually means to build software in a healthcare environment. The technical challenges are only part of the story. Regulations, privacy rules, clinical workflows, and industry standards shape almost every design decision.

The book follows the development of an end-to-end Electronic Health Record (EHR) application. As the system evolves, it introduces the standards and practices developers run into when working in this space. HL7 and FHIR are explained in practical terms rather than as abstract specifications. You’ll see how data moves between systems, how interoperability works, and why terminology matters when you’re talking with clinicians, administrators, and compliance teams.

The architecture also reflects the direction modern healthcare platforms are taking. Event-driven messaging appears alongside more traditional integration approaches. The book also looks at how newer tools, including AI-based systems, can fit into healthcare workflows without ignoring the strict regulatory environment that governs patient data.

A few things readers will spend time with:

  • how EHR systems are structured and why they look the way they do

  • how standards like HL7 and FHIR shape data exchange between healthcare platforms

  • how developers communicate with non-technical stakeholders in hospitals and health organizations

  • where modern architectural patterns fit into systems that must remain stable and compliant for years

Healthcare software carries unusual stakes. A bug in many applications causes inconvenience. In clinical systems, reliability and accuracy can affect real patient outcomes. That reality influences everything from data modeling to deployment practices.

If you’re curious about the technical and organizational side of healthcare development—or you’re considering moving into the field—this book offers a detailed introduction to the landscape.


Don’t forget you can get 45% off with your Devtalk discount! Just use the coupon code “devtalk.com” at checkout :+1:

Where Next?

Popular General Dev topics Top

PragmaticBookshelf
If you’re trying to use agile and lean strategies at the program level, you’ve heard of several approaches, all about scaling processes. ...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Management is ready to disband your new agile team and outsource your project. Can you save The Dream Team? Portia Tung edited by L...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Small changes to your habits can improve your health—without getting in the way of your work. The Healthy Programmer gives you a daily pl...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
The Cucumber Book showed you how your team can work together to write executable specifications—documents that tell a clear story and als...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
The Developer’s Code isn’t about the code you write, it’s about the code you live by. There are no trite superlatives here. Packed with l...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Debug It! will equip you with the tools, techniques, and approaches to help you tackle any bug with confidence. These secrets of professi...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
To lead change, you need to expand your toolkit, and this book gives you the tools you need to make the transition from agile practitione...
New
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Learn to design project lifecycles to create valuable products and a culture of agility. Johanna Rothman @jrothman Do you dread you...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Lint your docs like code: turn any style guide into enforceable rules with Vale and publish clear, consistent content every time. ...
New

Other popular topics Top

AstonJ
If it’s a mechanical keyboard, which switches do you have? Would you recommend it? Why? What will your next keyboard be? Pics always w...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Learn from the award-winning programming series that inspired the Elixir language, and go on a step-by-step journey through the most impo...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you’ll go beyond the syntax—and...
New
AstonJ
Or looking forward to? :nerd_face:
503 15149 280
New
AstonJ
This looks like a stunning keycap set :orange_heart: A LEGENDARY KEYBOARD LIVES ON When you bought an Apple Macintosh computer in the e...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Use WebRTC to build web applications that stream media and data in real time directly from one user to another, all in the browser. ...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Build efficient applications that exploit the unique benefits of a pure functional language, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell t...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Programming Ruby is the most complete book on Ruby, covering both the language itself and the standard library as well as commonly used t...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Develop, deploy, and debug BEAM applications using BEAMOps: a new paradigm that focuses on scalability, fault tolerance, and owning each ...
New
AstonJ
If you’re getting errors like this: psql: error: connection to server on socket “/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432” failed: No such file or directory ...
New