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OUR HISTORY

The HcDat Legacy: Innovation and Impact

Founded in 1995 as Interface Testing System by Phillip Barr & partner, HcDat initially focused on certifying machine-to-machine communication interfaces. Evolving into Healthcare Data Solutions (HcDat), our mission shifted towards advancing health standards to enhance patient outcomes and research.

HcDat played pivotal roles, including managing the first federal HL7* contract and pioneering HL7 servers for meaningful use standards. We've completed critical systems and research projects for prominent organizations like Emergency Physicians Medical Group, HL7, ONC, and more.

We thrive on collaboration, engaging top talent—tech gurus, standards leaders, and security experts—to craft innovative solutions. In a rapidly evolving tech landscape, our extensive network ensures we stay ahead, delivering broad and deep expertise tailored to your needs.

*HL7: Global standards facilitate the exchange of clinical and administrative health data to improve patient outcomes and health system efficiency.

A message from Phil & the team

Our Commitment to You: A Journey Together

We measure our success by the value we provide to our clients and the communities we serve.
An ER doctor friend once shared a story about a disoriented man who had to spend a costly, cold winter night in the emergency room, simply because he lacked a pair of boots and a warm place to sleep. Our healthcare journey takes us to fascinating places: from Data Security and Standardized Messaging to On-Demand Virtual Redundant Database Servers, Population Analytics, and deep into the Genome. It's a complex path, but our goal remains clear—to find the most efficient, low friction way to help those in need, like giving that man a safe place to rest and warm boots.
Thank you for allowing us to walk this path with you. We deeply appreciate your dedication to your mission and are grateful for the opportunity to work with such committed partners.

Phil & The Team At HcDat.
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Our team

Innovating Healthcare Through Data Mastery

Phil Barr

Phil Barr

Innovating Healthcare Through Data Mastery

Phil Barr, President and Chief Puzzle Master of HcDat, brings his data modeling expertise to tackle diverse life science, clinical, and public health challenges. Known for his philosophical insights on data interfaces, Phil emphasizes the importance of a single source of truth for data, advocating for standards-based methodologies to ensure data integrity and context. His approach turns raw data into meaningful information, enabling event recording and statistical aggregation for trending and benchmarking. Phil's visionary perspective underscores the narrative nature of data, recognizing that every data element tells a story, whether at a social construct level or down to sub-cellular detail.

Senior Full Stack Developer & Consultant

Santiago Forero

Santiago Forero

Senior Full Stack Developer & Consultant

Santiago is a senior full stack developer, entrepreneur, and consultant with extensive experience in building web projects that are both visually appealing and high-performing. Known for tackling complex challenges with modern web technologies, Santiago crafts intuitive, maintainable user interfaces supported by robust and modular systems.

Their expertise spans both frontend and backend development, with a specialized focus on the healthcare sector, where they handle health data standards like HL7 v2 messages and CCDs. Santiago is adept at translating these data formats into FHIR bundles, visualizing data, and ensuring secure message exchanges to meet compliance standards.

Santiago is also skilled in data flow orchestration, utilizing tools such as Apache Airflow and Trino DB to help healthcare organizations index, analyze, and gain insights from critical health and demographic metrics. This supports businesses in leveraging big data for better decision-making.

With a strong background in system architecture for B2C and B2B applications, Santiago integrates multiple platforms and services, optimizing processes through advanced AI. They are dedicated to delivering scalable, efficient, and user-centric solutions tailored to project needs.

System Performance Safe & Supercharged - DevOps, Security, Cloud and System Migration

Hao Wang

Hao Wang

System Performance Safe & Supercharged - DevOps, Security, Cloud and System Migration

Here's a high level overview of a recent client project. Of course there is a lot more technical detail to dive into.

For this typical recent client, a Health Information Exchange we used Linux based docker images and deployed them in Azure Kubernetes cluster. Services include a wide range of open source and commercial projects in Data engineering and Health industries. We put a lot of effort into security because we view security as the first priority. Penetration tests are conducted in each environment. Databases are created for each service in a separated environment and encrypted at rest and in transit. The Monitoring platform is the key to early detection of suspicious activity, anomalies in performance, crashes and bug tracking.

Typically, we both adapt, improve, streamline and secure existing client solution & services, and integrate new services to enhance performance and security. We use the popular solutions in the community, e.g. Prometheus/Grafana.

We bring our a deep level of experience to bear to each situation in order to achieve our clients immediate and long-term objectives. We love solving problems, and are here to help.

Regards,
Hao

DevOps/Data Engineer

Hao is a versatile DevOps/Data Engineer with a 20-year track record of delivering robust and scalable solutions. He is:

  • An expert in Linux systems administration, automation, and cloud technologies • Proficient in DevOps tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Gitlab, Ansible, Chef, Kubernetes) • Programming languages (Python, Ruby, Java, Go)
  • Experienced in big data technologies (Trino, StarRocks, Superset, Flink)
  • Software testing methodologies
  • Strong knowledge of open-source projects
  • System monitoring tools (Grafana/Prometheus, Datadog, Nagios, Zabbix)
Skills
  • AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Linux
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • CI/CD
  • DevOps
  • Shell Scripting
  • MySQL
  • Kubernetes (5 years)
  • Terraform (6 years)
  • Ubuntu Core (3 years)
  • Scripting
  • APIs
  • DNS
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Perl
  • S3
  • Python
Cloud Engineer
  • Infrastructure Automation: Utilized Terraform and Ansible to automate the deployment and management of entire infrastructure stacks for customers.
  • Data Platform Development: Built and maintained a robust data platform using Trino for analytics, Superset for data visualization, StarRocks for real-time analytics, and Airflow for workflow orchestration.
  • IoT Image Management: Developed, tested, and deployed IoT images to ensure optimal performance and security.
  • CI/CD: Collaborated with the team to improve CI/CD processes using Git for version control and Github Actions/Gitlab/CircleCI etc. for automated builds and deployments.
  • Production Support: Provided 24/7 production support, troubleshooting issues, and implementing solutions to maintain high availability and performance.
  • Big Data Infrastructure: Configured, deployed, and managed Data Engineering services for real-time data streaming.
  • Platform maintenance and monitoring: Developed and implemented tools to automate rolling upgrades and monitoring services, improving efficiency and reducing downtime.
  • Release Management: Managed and delivered error-free nightly, daily, and milestone release builds, ensuring timely and reliable software delivery.
  • Documentation: Authored, updated, and reviewed configuration management documentation to maintain clear and up-to-date records.
  • AWS Cloud Engineering: Led the delivery of medium-to-high complexity AWS-based workloads, overseeing the entire lifecycle from initial architecture and design through migration, development, testing, and deployment.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices with Terraform and Ansible to automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of new and existing customer environments, reducing manual effort and improving reliability.
  • Strategic Planning: Collaborated with the Leadership team to provide technical input and recommendations on existing and future product roadmaps, aligning with business objectives and industry trends.
  • Technical Leadership: Actively collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement in technical and architectural roadmaps, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
  • Solution Architecture: Designed and documented robust data structures, architectures, and process flows for AWS-based workloads, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
  • Mentorship and Training: Mentored and trained team members on AWS technologies, best practices, and design patterns, empowering them to deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Technology Evaluation: Evaluated emerging technologies and third-party solutions, making informed recommendations on build vs. buy decisions to optimize cost and performance.
  • Automation and Operations: Developed and implemented reusable automation tools and operations processes to streamline workflows, improve efficiency, and reduce operational overhead.
  • Monitoring and Security: Designed, implemented, and maintained end-to-end monitoring solutions to proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring high availability and performance. Ensured compliance with security best practices and industry standards.
  • Integration Engineering: Designed, coordinated, and troubleshooted complex integrations between various systems and services, ensuring seamless data flow and system interoperability.
  • Infrastructure Automation: Leveraged AWS CloudFormation and Ansible to automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of infrastructure, reducing manual effort and increasing efficiency.
  • SaaS Expertise: Demonstrated strong expertise in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) infrastructure technologies, including Docker for containerization, Consul for service discovery, Nginx for load balancing, Terraform for infrastructure as code, ELK Stack for log management and analytics, Hubot for chatops, and Datadog for monitoring and alerting.
  • Software Engineering: Applied software engineering best practices, such as code refactoring, continuous integration, and building highly scalable and secure applications.
  • Risk Management: Actively identified potential risks and developed effective mitigation strategies to ensure project success and minimize downtime.
  • Agile Methodology: Collaborated effectively in Agile teams, adhering to Agile principles and practices to deliver high-quality software.
  • Technical Community: Participated in local meetups and workshops on Docker and Kubernetes to stay updated on the latest trends and technologies, and to network with other industry professionals.

Sample of Our Collaborative Footprint in Healthcare

Healthcare Data Solutions collaborates or has collaborated extensively with the organizations listed above, among many others, through affiliations, projects, and consulting engagements. Please note that their inclusion here does not imply an official endorsement.

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