Index 00 / The Living Index

Healthcare IT · Interoperability · Applied AI · Calcutta

Suvro Ghosh

Healthcare IT Architect & Clinical Data Systems Consultant

I design the architecture beneath health-information exchange: how clinical records move, survive translation, and become reliable enough for care and applied AI. This site also follows other signals—scientific experiments, essays, games, and ordinary life in Calcutta.

22.5726° N 88.3639° E

Follow the signals

Index 01 / Four behaviours

Four ways through the field

Follow information through a clinical system, a scientific model, a piece of writing, or a city. Each route begins differently; each asks what survives the journey.

Index 03 / Guided routes

Guided reading

Five ways into the work

Choose a short route through the essays, healthcare systems work, science, Calcutta, or fiction.

Explore all five paths
  1. 01 Orientation

    Begin with the voice

    Three essays about why this site exists, what its author notices, and how small things become a way of thinking. Follow path
  2. 02 Healthcare IT

    Healthcare systems from first principles

    Start with the human and institutional problems, then move into interoperability and information exchange. Follow path
  3. 03 Science & mental models

    Science without ceremonial fog

    Mathematics, probability, and uncertainty explained through queues, myths, and the structures beneath ordinary problems. Follow path
  4. 04 Place & memory

    Calcutta, close up

    Tea, schooling, heat, and the city as lived experience rather than scenery. Follow path
  5. 05 Short fiction

    Fiction after dark

    Three unsettling stories in which Calcutta's streets, houses, and systems acquire lives of their own. Follow path

Index 04 / Work in two registers

Professional and creative work

Clinical information systems and independent creative work sit side by side here. Both are concerned with how difficult structures become legible.

Systems

Professional systems work

Healthcare data architecture, interoperability, and the dependable movement of clinical information. Available for Gulf, remote, hybrid, consulting, and advisory work.

  • Healthcare IT
  • HL7/FHIR
  • HIE
  • Clinical data systems
  • SQL/ETL
  • Health informatics
  • AI-ready healthcare data architecture

Index 05 / Incoming signals

Recently published

Latest from the library

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  1. Luminous steam rising from a teacup on a wooden desk forms a glowing neural brain projecting cyan light beams, inside a Calcutta room overlooking the Victoria Memorial at dusk.
    Raw

    Thinking Aloud on the Eve of the End of Thinking

    An unemployed 51-year-old Bengali in Calcutta asks what happens if we stop following a thought to its end, and what children inherit when answers arrive too soon. Read
  2. Sciencia beside a black mug, a science book bought for company during Durga Puja.
    Personal Essay

    My Puja Guest Has a Spine

    I bought myself Sciencia for Durga Puja: six sciences, a little company, and something for my mind to do besides chewing through its own wiring. Read
  3. Three bloated men with noodles spilling from their mouths wade through flooded Calcutta streets before an illuminated Durga Puja pandal in the rain.
    Short Fiction

    The Last Supper of Calcutta

    A disgraced scientist's self-replicating noodle turns Durga Puja into an apocalypse of swelling bodies and flooded streets. Read
  4. Narendra Modi smiling at a banquet table eating a shattered glass letter T with a fork from a silver platter, flanked by three monstrous wolf heads before the Indian Parliament building against a fiery tricolor background.
    Political Satire

    The Three Ts and the Three Fs in Modi's India

    A satirical autopsy of truth, transparency, and trust being digested from within by fear, falsehood, and favoritism. Read

Index 06 / A direct line

Have a difficult healthcare system, data problem, or mechanism that needs to be made intelligible?

Tell me where the information stalls, changes meaning, or becomes difficult to trust.