Healthcare organizations receive millions of clinical documents every year — discharge summaries, visit notes, lab reports — yet most of this data remains trapped in unstructured PDFs. Manual chart review for HEDIS quality reporting alone costs $50–100 per document, and HEDIS affects over 235 million enrolled members in the United States.
What struck me most wasn't just the cost — it was the fragility. Every time NCQA updates a HEDIS measure specification, clinical informaticists have to file developer tickets, wait for code reviews, and push deployments just to change a phrase like "medication reconciliation completed." That felt wrong. Clinical logic should live with clinical teams, not buried in Python files.
That tension — between the clinical world and the engineering world — inspired the core idea: what if all extraction rules lived in a swappable config file instead of code?
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