Case Study

Bridge Connector: Rosa

Building a no-code healthcare integration platform that empowered non-technical users to create and manage complex HL7v2 integrations.

2016-2020Senior Software EngineerNashville, TN

100K+

Daily Messages

80%

Deployment Time Reduction

50+

Healthcare Partners

99.9%

Uptime

The Challenge

Healthcare organizations were drowning in integration complexity. Every new connection required months of custom development, and making changes was a nightmare of compliance concerns and technical debt.

  • 1Healthcare organizations struggled with complex HL7v2 integrations requiring months of development
  • 2Non-technical staff couldn't modify integration logic without engineering support
  • 3Lack of visibility into message flow and error handling
  • 4Compliance requirements made changes risky and slow

Technical Architecture

Core Technologies

Node.js
React
PostgreSQL
Redis
Docker
AWS

Key Design Decisions

  • • Event-driven architecture for real-time message processing
  • • Microservices approach for scalability and isolation
  • • Immutable message logs for compliance and debugging
  • • Blue-green deployments for zero-downtime updates

Security & Compliance

Built with HIPAA compliance from day one. All data encrypted at rest and in transit, comprehensive audit logging, and role-based access controls.

Key Takeaways

1. Empowering Non-Technical Users is Powerful

By removing the engineering bottleneck, organizations moved 10x faster and discovered use cases we never imagined.

2. Healthcare Needs Purpose-Built Tools

Generic integration platforms couldn't handle healthcare's complexity. Building specifically for HL7v2 and FHIR was key to our success.

3. Visibility Changes Everything

Simply showing users what was happening in their integrations reduced support burden dramatically and built trust in the platform.

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