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Brendan Keeler
Personal blog · healthapiguy.substack.comhealthbusiness
Brendan Keeler writes Health API Guy, a personal blog at healthapiguy.substack.com about health and business. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Epic vs. Health Gorilla: A New Fight Begins”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for analysis of health IT, including the Epic lawsuit over health data sales and the headless EHR concept. One commenter calls its Epic v. Health Gorilla breakdown a great alternative explanation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Connecting the dots on connecting the systems.
Most-linked posts?
- Epic vs. Health Gorilla: A New Fight Begins2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-13
What Hacker News says?
I had this thought recently: "different hospitals have different workflows, and they want to see different stuff in the UI. But obviously they all want domain objects like "a patient," "an appointment," etc. Some company should offer a standard backend, and a starting template for a frontend that each hospital can customize however they want." It turns out that concept is called "Headless EHR," and it's pretty new.[…
Comment linking /p/to-ehr-or-not-to-ehr
on “EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office”Submitted Epic vs. Health Gorilla: A New Fight Begins as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt took me a bit to get my head around this one; https://healthapiguy.substack.com/p/epic-v-health-gorilla-a-... has a great alternative breakdown. This is my understanding of the situation; if someone has any corrections, I would love to be enlightened! Essentially, Epic, a massive healthcare company running the majority of electronic healthcare/medical record systems for hospitals/etc. makes data available to vari…
Comment linking /p/epic-v-health-gorilla-a-new-fight
on “Epic sues multiple health data providers, alleging fraudlent sale of health data”Submitted OpenAI's Second Attempt at Health as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Will Be Bundling (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The previously undiscovered Bible of API companies as a story · 1 points
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