{"id":65117,"title":"Medplum: API-first Electronic Health Record - that’s open source  ","tagline":"Medplum makes it fast and easy to build white-label medical apps that look good AND are compliant and integration-ready day one.","body":"Reshma, Cody and Rahul 👋 - Medplum in YC announcement is extra special for us because this fall marks **10 years of YC** for our team.  We were the founding team of [MedXT](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/medxt) (W13) and I (Reshma) spent 2021 as a [Visiting Group Partner](https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-w21-visiting-group-partners/) for the W21 and S21 batches.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=65117\u0026key=user_uploads/57511/44a369bc-67bc-49f9-ab2e-8f58c722e03d)\n\nWe are back and building [Medplum](https://www.medplum.com/)! Why?\n\n**Medical apps are notoriously hard to build and maintain**, largely due to all the stakeholders involved and the byzantine incentive system.  **We were inspired** by trailblazing open source YC companies [Gitlab](https://about.gitlab.com/), [PostHog](https://posthog.com/), [Airbyte](https://airbyte.com/) and [many others](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?tags=Open%20Source) who solve similar complex problems in other domains. We believe the open source model will be **especially impactful for healthcare**.\n\nOur ask: use us to build your next medical app!\n\n* Read our [docs](https://docs.medplum.com/)\n* Browse the [code](https://github.com/medplum)\n* A [sample app](https://foomedical.com/), with [source code](https://github.com/medplum/foomedical) \\\n  \\\n  \\- Reshma, Cody and Rahul\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=65117\u0026key=user_uploads/57511/8928e216-9e5c-4b7b-9925-305011d6fa16)\n\n","slug":"GwH-medplum-api-first-electronic-health-record-that-s-open-source","created_at":"2022-08-03T22:36:27.859Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T02:55:44.046Z","total_vote_count":54,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GwH-medplum-api-first-electronic-health-record-that-s-open-source","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":26413,"name":"Medplum","slug":"medplum","url":"https://www.medplum.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4229dd6804f5d73a29c33ab5b98b1cf482e0ea34.png","batch":"Summer 2022","industry":"Healthcare","tags":["Developer Tools","Open Source","Healthcare"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26413"}}