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

Browse all writing
  1. The Baroque Minutiae
    Mental Health

    The Baroque Minutiae

    A man in Calcutta on new antidepressants, spiraling inward, flitting between worries, and trying to sleep his way through a baroque minutiae he cannot afford. Read
  2. Pencil sketch of Goddess Durga holding a trident, seated above a lion
    Polemic

    The Meat Of The Goddess

    A Madhya Pradesh babaji tries to legislate the Bengali thali and loses; a defense of fish, microbes, and the zoom-level between veg and non-veg. Read
  3. A weary caveman crouched on a rock at sunset, the monsoon behind him and a glowing brain beside his feet
    Raw Science

    The Excremental Singularity

    A Bengali healthcare researcher in Calcutta reads summer 2026's AGI doom posts and finds, beneath the singularity, a funding winter and an old economy at full tilt. Read
  4. A milk can on deck, 1831
    Personal Essay

    The Cow Who Crossed The Sea

    Why Raja Ram Mohan Roy shipped a milking cow to England in 1831, and what the milk really bought him. 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.