Writing for the open healthcare commons.

Code is necessary, but not sufficient. Health systems need stewardship, release discipline, documentation, security, and an ecosystem that can outlast any one deployment.

Assistive AI in healthcare should sit on structured, interoperable data and human-reviewed workflows. The foundation layer matters before the model layer.

CARE Core provides reusable primitives for patient records, encounters, orders, observations, tasks, care plans, reports, access control, audit trails, and APIs.