# Introduction

Healthcare IT is complex and difficult to navigate.

There are many challenges.

The main one stems from decentralization. I.e., each medical provider or a payer has its own IT system hosting all the
data. This data is usually not shared with anyone, not by default.

This makes difficult to conduct any kind of analysis, such as a prevalence of a decease or a median cost of a medical
procedure.

On top of it, Healthcare IT professionals have to deal with:

* Complex standards such as HL7 FHIR with many complex "resources"
* Many code sets, encoding services, products, diagnosis, conditions and various other parameters of care
* Complex vocabularies, such as Snomed
* Several disintegrated domains, such as administrative (billing) and clinical (medical treatment)
* Legacy and proprietary standards, such as X12 EDI and Snomed
* In spite of advent of FHIR-based APIs, the majority of Healthcare IT is still very much batch-oriented

This site is dedicated to explaining these complexities to IT professionals and even lay people not versed in jargon and
intricacies of healthcare systems.

We also strive to build tools to make it easier to view and analyze healthcare data, focusing on billing and
administrative.