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No one was mapping the full system: clinical, financial, operational, and political layers together. Healthcare Uncharted exists to close that gap. Here is who built it and why.
About Healthcare Uncharted
Healthcare technology is full of territory that nobody maps end-to-end. Clinicians use enterprise EHRs every shift without understanding why the data is structured the way it is. Analysts write SQL reports without knowing the clinical meaning behind the tables. Leaders make AI investments without knowing what actually works versus what is still emerging.
Healthcare Uncharted is the system map I wish had existed when I started in healthcare informatics. It is built from real clinical bedside experience, real health administration, and real work with EHR data systems. Not vendor training materials or theoretical frameworks.
The goal is simple: map the connections, not just the components. For every role in the system. Not just the technical ones.
About David Eitel
I started my career as a Registered Respiratory Therapist in the ICU: bedside care, mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, and all the documentation that goes with it. That experience gave me something most healthcare informaticists don’t have: I know what the data means clinically, not just structurally.
From there I moved through health administration and into clinical informatics. That’s the operational layer where clinical care, data architecture, and health system management intersect. That path is what makes this map possible.
I currently work at Intermountain Health in healthcare informatics. Healthcare Uncharted is an independent educational project ·not affiliated with or endorsed by my employer.
Guest Authors
Healthcare Uncharted occasionally brings in subject-matter experts who map layers outside my own direct experience. Each guest author is a practicing clinician with firsthand knowledge of the terrain they write about.
Chrysalis Ashton is a respiratory therapist with 13 years of experience and a dedicated advocate for the post-acute care profession. After beginning her career in acute care, she found her passion for home care and DME, where she has served in several roles including Clinical Director and Compliance Officer.
Chrysalis actively advances the respiratory profession by coordinating partnerships with RT education programs, mentoring future clinicians, and volunteering as an AARC Delegate and home care chair-elect for her state respiratory society. She is a graduate of the AARC’s inaugural Emerging Leaders Program (2024), a COPD Foundation State Captain, and participates in several AAHomecare committees and work groups.