CareConnect NZ
Connecting Care. Empowering Lives.
CareConnect NZ is a modern healthcare information exchange platform demonstrating secure clinical workflows, patient management, appointments, laboratory results, and AI-assisted clinical summarisation.
Problem
Healthcare data lives in silos. Clinicians waste time switching between systems for patient records, appointments and lab results, while security and auditability are non-negotiable. New Zealand needs interoperable, standards-based clinical tooling.
Solution
CareConnect NZ centralises clinical workflows into a single secure platform. Clinicians manage patients, appointments and lab results from one dashboard, protected by role-based access and full audit logging. AI-assisted summarisation condenses patient history into readable clinical insights.
Architecture
A Spring Boot REST backend exposes secured endpoints consumed by a React + Material UI frontend. PostgreSQL stores clinical data with an FHIR-ready schema, JWT handles stateless authentication and every sensitive action is written to an immutable audit log.
Key Features
Challenges
Modelling clinical data to be FHIR-ready without over-engineering, and designing an audit trail that captured every access to sensitive records without impacting performance.
Lessons Learned
Security and compliance must be designed in from day one, not bolted on. Building against healthcare interoperability standards taught me to think in terms of long-lived, evolvable data contracts.
Future Improvements
- Full FHIR R4 resource compliance and HL7 messaging
- Patient-facing mobile companion app
- Deeper AI: risk scoring and clinical decision support
