Healthcare

• 01 Sep 2026

  Go for Healthcare Software: 3 Problems, One Language

    10 minutes

  Generating fake patients, running recurring jobs, and keeping an AI layer honest and de-identified downstream of an EMR: 3 different problems, and Go's answer to each one still fits in a small file.
• 17 Aug 2026

  Generating Synthetic OSCAR Patients Without the 20GB Synthea Download

    8 minutes

  Getting a Synthea population usually means a Java CLI run and a bulk export that dwarfs what OSCAR actually needs. Here's an in-memory, chunked patient generator that skips all of it.
• 13 Aug 2026

  OSCAR EMR Ships Empty (So I Loaded 1,163 Fake Patients Into It)

    8 minutes

  OSCAR EMR has no sample data out of the box. Here's how Synthea and a Go CLI filled it with 1,163 synthetic patients, and what a 15-year-old EMR schema taught me about healthcare data.