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ICD-11WHO's classification for counting disease — fully digital, API-first, with a traditional-medicine chapter India helped shape.concept · 3 min · foundationLOINCThe universal codes for lab tests and observations — answering 'which question was asked?' while SNOMED answers 'what was found?'concept · 3 min · foundationUCUM unitsOne unambiguous code for every unit of measure — because mg/dL vs mmol/L confusion is a patient-safety issue, not a formatting nit.concept · 2 min · foundation
Guardrails & safetyThe layers around a model that keep it in-scope, grounded and resistant to manipulation — engineering, not hope.concept · 3 min · practitionerAmbient documentationThe AI scribe: listen to the visit, draft the note — attacking healthcare's documentation burden at its source.concept · 3 min · foundationLLMOps & evalsThe operations discipline for AI features: versioned prompts, automated evals, monitoring and cost control — because 'it seemed fine in the demo' is not a deployment strategy.concept · 3 min · practitionerPrompt engineeringDesigning the input is designing the behaviour: instructions, context, examples and output contracts that make LLMs reliable.concept · 3 min · foundationFederated learningTrain one model across many hospitals without any of them sharing patient data — the model travels, the data stays.concept · 3 min · practitionerAI agents & tool useAn LLM in a loop: reason, call a tool, observe the result, repeat — turning a text generator into a system that does things.concept · 3 min · foundationEmbeddings & vector databasesTurn text into coordinates in meaning-space, then search by closeness — the index that makes semantic search and RAG work.concept · 3 min · foundationRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Ground an LLM's answer in your own documents: retrieve relevant passages first, then generate with them in context — citations included.concept · 3 min · foundationModel Context Protocol (MCP)The open standard that lets AI assistants plug into tools and data sources — USB-C for the agent era.concept · 3 min · foundation
WebGPUModern GPU access from the browser — compute shaders and fast graphics that make client-side medical imaging and on-device ML practical.concept · 2 min · practitionerWebRTCThe browser standard for real-time audio, video and data — the engine inside nearly every telemedicine consultation.concept · 3 min · foundationWebAssembly (WASM) & WASIA portable, sandboxed binary format: run near-native code safely in browsers and servers — capability-based security included.concept · 3 min · practitionergRPCA fast binary RPC framework over HTTP/2 — how backend microservices call each other when JSON-over-REST is too slow or too loose.concept · 3 min · practitionerWebSocketOne TCP connection, kept open, messages flowing both ways — how dashboards get live vitals without polling.concept · 2 min · foundation
CI/CDMerge, test, ship as a pipeline: continuous integration proves every change; continuous delivery makes releasing boring.concept · 3 min · foundationObservabilityLogs, metrics and traces designed in from the start — so 'why is it slow?' has an answer instead of a war room.concept · 3 min · foundationContainers & KubernetesPackage the app with its world, then let an orchestrator keep fleets of them running — the default shape of modern health-IT infrastructure.concept · 3 min · foundationApache KafkaA durable, replayable event log for high-volume streams — the backbone when device telemetry outgrows a simple broker.concept · 3 min · practitionerTime-series databasesStorage engines built for timestamped streams — millions of vitals per hour, compressed, with time-window queries that stay fast.concept · 3 min · practitioner
Zero trustNever trust the network, always verify the request — the security model for a world where the perimeter already failed.concept · 3 min · foundationDifferential privacyA mathematical privacy guarantee: published statistics barely change whether or not you are in the dataset — provably.concept · 3 min · expertHomomorphic encryptionCompute on data while it stays encrypted — analyse what you are never allowed to see.concept · 3 min · expertDIDs & verifiable credentialsCryptographically checkable claims — a nursing licence or a SIDHI certificate any employer can verify in seconds without calling anyone.concept · 3 min · practitioner
RTOSAn operating system that promises *when*, not just *what* — the software heart of infusion pumps, monitors and ventilators.concept · 3 min · practitionerIEEE 11073The standards family for how medical devices describe themselves and their measurements — the device-side counterpart to FHIR.concept · 3 min · practitionerCoAPHTTP's tiny cousin for constrained devices — request/response over UDP when even MQTT is too heavy.concept · 3 min · foundationDigital twinsA continuously updated virtual copy of a physical thing — a device, a ward, eventually a patient — you can query and simulate against.concept · 3 min · foundationEdge computingProcessing data where it is produced — at the bedside, gateway, or device — instead of round-tripping everything to the cloud.concept · 3 min · foundationBluetooth Low Energy & GATTHow your pulse oximeter actually talks to a phone: BLE radio plus the GATT data model of services and characteristics.concept · 4 min · foundationMQTTThe lightweight publish/subscribe protocol that moves device telemetry — the lingua franca of medical IoT.concept · 3 min · foundation