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node-on-fhir/cookbook
Cookbook for Node on FHIR and the clinical Meteor.js build pipeline. Create FDA, HIPPA, and HL7 compliant Javascript/Node applications!
A documentation cookbook for building HIPAA-compliant, FHIR-enabled healthcare apps using Meteor.js and Node.js. It's aimed at JS developers who need to navigate healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR R4) without a dedicated health-IT background. The repo is less a working codebase and more a structured collection of recipes, markdown guides, and git submodules pointing at companion packages.
The breadth of healthcare domain coverage is real — HIPAA audit logging, ICD-10, pharmacogenomics, FDA precertification concerns, and FHIR resource schemas are all touched in ways you won't find in generic web dev docs. The submodule structure gives you pointers to ~30 individual HL7 resource implementations (Patient, Observation, DiagnosticReport, etc.) that you'd otherwise have to hunt down separately. The UI design inspiration folder is unexpectedly useful — clinical UI patterns from Minority Report-style references to Star Trek sickbay actually prompt good thinking about healthcare-specific UX constraints. It also has honest governance docs and a clear contribution model.
Last commit was January 2022 and the README itself opens with an apology about an unfinished reorg — the active cookbook directory has only 8 files while a massive `cookbook-deprecated` folder holds most of the actual content. Meteor.js is a significant bet in 2024; the whole build pipeline assumes it, so if you're on Express, Fastify, or anything else, most of the structural recipes don't apply. HIPAA is misspelled as HIPPA throughout the repo description (not inspiring confidence in a compliance-focused project). The 'recipes' vary wildly in quality and currentness — some are stubs, some reference Meteor 0.9.x patterns, and there's no clear signal which docs reflect the current node-on-fhir target versus the deprecated meteor-on-fhir era.