How We Celebrated the Summer Around the World at MongoDB

Jess Katz
September 13, 2019
#Culture

This summer, all around the world, the teams at MongoDB came together to have fun and bond. Take a look at how we celebrated.

Dublin, Ireland

Our Dublin office went to The Big Grill Festival In Herbert Park and enjoyed some delicious BBQ and great music. Shout-out to our office Fun Team for putting this together!

BBQ in Dublin

New York, NY

We enjoyed kickball and time with our families at the annual MongoDB company picnic in New York City.

NYC picnic

Gurugram, India

We continue to drive MongoDB's wellness initiatives across the globe. This time, we organized a wellness week in India. We had Zumba, yoga, a planking challenge, benefits sessions, chair massages, onsite medical and dental checkups, & a 'biggest loser competition."

Wellness Week in India

Austin, TX

Our team in Austin went on their 4th annual boat trip. This is how we survived 105°F weather in Texas!

Austin boat trip

Palo Alto, CA

In Palo Alto, we focused on feeling strong this summer and launched new wellness workouts in the office.

Wellness workout in Palo Alto

We hope you’ve enjoyed your summer and we can’t wait to see how our friends in the southern hemisphere celebrate over the coming months!

Interested in being a part of our amazing team? Take a look at our Careers page and join us!

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Many differences exist across healthcare systems around the globe, but there is one unfortunate similarity: fragmentation. Fragmentation is a consequence of the inability of various healthcare organizations (both public and private) to communicate with each other or to do so in a timely or consistent manner, and it can have a dramatic impact on patient and population well-being. Interoperability and communication A patient can visit a specialist for a specific condition and the family doctor for regular checkups, perhaps even on the same day. But how can both doctors make appropriate decisions if patient data is not shared between them? Fragmented healthcare delivery, as described in this scenario, also leads to data fragmentation. Such data fragmentation can cause misdiagnosis and services duplication. It can also lead to billing issues, fraud, and more, causing preventable harm and representing a massive economic burden for healthcare systems worldwide. To improve healthcare fragmentation, we need truly interoperable health data. The longitudinal patient record A longitudinal patient record (LPR) is a full, life-long view of a patient’s healthcare history and the care they’ve received. It’s an electronic snapshot of every interaction patients have, regardless of provider and service. Ideally, this record can be shared across any or all entities within a country’s healthcare system. The LPR represents a step beyond the electronic health record, extending past a specific healthcare network to a regional or national level. It’s critical that LPRs use the same data format and structure to guarantee the ability of healthcare providers to easily and quickly interact with them. Data standards for LPRs are key to interoperability and can help address healthcare fragmentation, which, in turn, can help save lives by improving care. FHIR Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a commonly used schema that comprises a set of API and data standards for exchanging healthcare data. FHIR enables semantic interoperability to allow effective communication between independent healthcare institutions and essentially defines “how healthcare information can be exchanged between different computer systems regardless of how it is stored in those systems” ( ONC Fact Sheet, “What is FHIR?” ). FHIR aims to solve the fragmentation problem of the healthcare system by directly attacking the root of the problem: miscommunication. As is the case for many other modern communication standards (for example, ISO 20022 for finance ), FHIR builds its REST API from a JSON schema. This foundation is convenient, considering most modern applications are built with object-oriented programming languages that have JSON as the standard file and data interchange format. This approach also makes it easier for developers to build applications, which is perhaps the most important point: The future of healthcare delivery may increasingly depend on the creation of applications that will transform how patients and providers interact with healthcare systems for the better. MongoDB: FHIR and healthcare app-ification MongoDB is a document database and is therefore a natural fit for building FHIR applications. With JSON as the foundation of the MongoDB document model developers can easily store and retrieve data from their FHIR APIs to and from the database, with no translation or change of format needed. In fact, organizations can adopt FHIR resources as the basis of a new, canonical data model that existing internal systems can begin to shift and conform to. One example is the Exafluence FHIR API , which is built on top of MongoDB. 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MongoDB’s industry-proven iterative approach to modernization reduces the risk of application and infrastructure migration and unlocks developer productivity and innovation. Interoperable, modern healthcare applications can now be built in a developer-friendly environment, with all the benefits expected from traditional databases (i.e., ACID transactions, expressive query language, and enterprise-grade security). MongoDB provides the freedom for solutions to be deployed anywhere (e.g., on-premises, multi-cloud), providing a major advantage for healthcare organizations, which typically have multi-environment deployments. Healthcare and the cloud Digital healthcare will accelerate the adoption of cloud technologies within the industry, enabling innovation at scale and unlocking billions of dollars in value. Healthcare organizations, however, have so far been reluctant to move workloads to the cloud, mostly because of data privacy and security concerns. 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