I'll be attending this AMA with the Medblocks CEO. I really love his educational content--it's been the most helpful for me to get from 0 to intermediate with FHIR and the larger healthcare IT ecosystem. https://medblocks.com/ask-me-anything
I'm curious what the Medplum people think of the Medblocks platform. What would say they are doing well? Why should a developer use Medplum instead?
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reshma
08/21/2024, 4:43 PM
Sidharth and I are buddies - and I have appeared on his podcast!
. - maybe he's in here too?
Ultimately, healthcare devs are part of a small community and finding the right tool is about understanding the problem you are trying to solve.
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zuchka_
08/21/2024, 4:44 PM
a bit of hedging, no?
> What would say they are doing well? Why should a developer use Medplum instead?
zuchka_
08/21/2024, 4:48 PM
for one, I think Sidharth is doing the yeoman's work of actually explaining and teaching basic health dev concepts to noobs like me. My biggest frustration with tinkering with Medplum for the past few months is that it wants to become the technology that undergirds the next great generation of healthcare, but it doesn't really do a whole lot to explain the larger ecosystem. Like it can't be bothered. I'm already much more indebted to Sidharth for the work he's done there, and it does incline me to stick closer to medblocks over medplum
zuchka_
08/21/2024, 4:51 PM
do you know why Hasura wins the GraphQL game? because their website actually explains graphQL to noobs. It's a massive top of funnel for them. People search for graphql help, land on their platform, get the info and education they need, and then adopt Hasura. Same with DigitalOcean and sysadmin/devops content. Whoever does that for Healthcare IT will win big.
zuchka_
08/21/2024, 4:56 PM
maybe sidharth will be more transparent when I ask him about medplum in his AMA!
zuchka_
08/21/2024, 4:58 PM
I'll be sure to mention your unwillingness to mention a single kind thing about his project, which was all I was looking for by starting this thread. I don't trust anyone who can't say a single nice thing about an actual competitor
zuchka_
08/21/2024, 5:04 PM
I mean: you're basically both healthcare consultancies building software on the side. Pretty sure that's where the revenue comes from for both of these orgs.