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Systems Under Stress

A public research platform asking one question — how do digital health systems behave when everything goes wrong?

The thesis

Modern healthcare runs on software. When ransomware, disaster, or sheer load takes the record away, some systems degrade gracefully and some fail catastrophically — and the difference is knowable.

Health system resilience is not just an IT problem. It's public infrastructure, and increasingly a security question.

Approach

The Stress Observatory: public-document case research on real incidents — extended EHR downtime, ransomware, disaster response — building toward a degradation typology.

What separates the systems that hold from the ones that don't.

Where it stands

Founded 06/2026. Live and growing, and part of a longer research arc. Architected, built, and deployed end to end with Claude Code — site architecture, data pipelines, and the published analysis.

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