Alexandr Pihtovnicov

Building AI Agents on Medplum: FHIR-Native Data and AuditEvent Governance

By February 2026, more than 80% of US health care technology executives told Deloitte they expect agentic AI to deliver moderate-to-significant value across clinical and back-office healthcare work this year. It is a sharp jump from the wait-and-see mood of 2024.

ByAlexandr Pihtovnicov, Anna Solovei

25 September 2026 · 11 min read

Accessibility Audit for HealthTech Products: WCAG 2.2, WCAG-EM and the Audit Grid (+Expert Advice)

The WebAIM Million scanned the top 1,000,000 home pages in 2026 and found WCAG 2 failures on 95.9% of them, with an average of 56.1 errors per page. HealthTech products are not the exception.

ByAnna Solovei, Alexandr Pihtovnicov

22 September 2026 · 13 min read

EHR Write-Back: Why Reading Data Is Easy and Writing Is Hard

Reading from an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is basically a solved problem: every certified EHR exposes the same read API. EHR write-back is not. Certification stops at read, so the moment your app needs to send a value into the chart instead of just pulling one out, there is no standard path waiting for it.

ByAlexandr Pihtovnicov, Anna Solovei

3 September 2026 · 17 min read

Lab Integration Software: LIS, LOINC, and Results Delivery Done Right

A national survey of health information exchanges found that 80% make laboratory results available to the organizations they connect. In the same survey, 36% reported that a laboratory had sought to limit or refuse access to electronic health information. Of the exchanges that hit that wall, 96% hit it with an independent or commercial lab. Availability and a working connection are two different things.

ByAlexandr Pihtovnicov, Anna Solovei

1 September 2026 · 17 min read

Chronic Care Management Software: RPM Plus the Adherence Patients Stick With

When you are standing up a Chronic Care Management program, two worries sit on top of the pile. Will enough patients stay engaged each month to bill, and will the software handle Medicare billing cleanly enough to survive an audit? Get both right, and you have recurring reimbursement, better outcomes, and patients who stay. 

ByAlexandr Pihtovnicov, Anna Solovei

19 August 2026 · 16 min read

How To Choose a HIPAA-Compliant Telehealth Platform for Your Healthcare Practice

ByAlexandr Pihtovnicov, Krystyna Teres

9 August 2026 · 15 min read

AI Predictive Analytics in Healthcare: What Is It & Benefits

Healthcare is drowning in data. The industry now generates nearly 36% of the world's data, producing 10,800 exabytes of information every year.

ByAlexandr Pihtovnicov, Krystyna Teres

6 August 2026 · 19 min read

10 Latest HealthTech Trends To Follow in 2026

ByAlexandr Pihtovnicov, Krystyna Teres

2 August 2026 · 20 min read

Medplum Explained for Founders: What It Solves, What It Costs, and What to Ask a Dev Partner

Every healthcare product rests on one early decision: where its clinical data lives. Get that foundation wrong, and the bill arrives later as a stalled launch, a failed audit, or a rebuild that swallows a funding round. The hard part is that this call often lands on a founder who is not an engineer, at the very moment there is no time to become one.

ByAlexandr Pihtovnicov, Anna Solovei

31 July 2026 · 14 min read

How to Create a Mental Health App in 6 Steps

Did you know that over 970 million people worldwide suffer from a mental disorder, with anxiety and depression being the most common? As awareness of mental health issues grows, digital solutions have become crucial in bridging the gap between demand and accessibility.

ByAlexandr Pihtovnicov, Anna Solovei

30 July 2026 · 18 min read