While FHIR officially supports XML and other formats, JSON is the lion’s share of the work. “Bulk FHIR” uses the format NDJSON as a way. . .
Category: Code Recipes
The Medicare Provider Directory API
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) recently released Medicare provider enrollment data contained in the “Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System” or “PECOS”. CMS. . .
Converting Stata files to CSV using R
A simple recipe for converting Stata data into CSV. CSV stands for comma separated valuew. Common uses for this recipe is when you want to. . .
Provider Directory Proposal (NPPES Redux)
A couple of weeks ago, I attended ONC’s Direct Bootcamp in Crystal City, VA. A hot topic at the two-day conference was the notion of. . .
How to Serve Public Certificates with BIND for the Direct Project
Serving public certificates via DNS is quite an obscure endeavor. This is made quite evident by the total lack of documentation on how to serve. . .
ce – Certificate Examiner
This is a quick command-line utility for displaying information contained in an SSL certificates and CRLs. It is faster and easier to remember than the. . .
A Command-line Utility & Library to Fetch Revoked Serial Numbers from a Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
This functionality is not available in openssl’s comand line utility, so I cooked this up to do the job. The library function returns a Python. . .
Calculating BMI in Python
If you ever need to calculate Body Mass Index (BMI) in Python, here’s how… -acv
Get the Latest Object or a 404 in Django : get_latest_object_or_404
The get_object_or_404 is a handy Django shortcut. It keeps my views shorter. In my case however, I had the need to get the latest object.. . .
Fun with Framingham
Hot off the presses is an open source implementation of the Framingham 10 Year Heart Attack Risk Calculator. This software package consists of a command-line. . .