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Chris Compton, MSHI

@compton.fyi
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Informaticist, Health Scientist & Developer. Building applications and systems. Just trying to help humanity + enjoy life. Need to try harder, probably. Founder @informatics.fyi | Building @biginformatics.com

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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/10/2025
We're close to launch time for @cambigo.com - here's a video that demonstrates creating a new flow and getting a jumpstart on your document using the bulk addition feature. youtu.be/-oQ4L2yH2L0
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Cambigo Demo - Creating a Flow
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/09/2025
Codazo is now under development for a full release in the near future so that anyone can host feedback sessions with others. At some point I will see about integrating this capability into Cambigo plans for immediate feedback gathering and incorporation into the user experience you are designing.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/09/2025
Once I had the initial proof of concept, I realized I needed to separate some of the real-time communications into a separate service, so I was able to put on my technical hat and write up the requirements for a specialized API and have this service built and deployed within a few hours.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/09/2025
Using a user experience and workflow built in Cambigo, I was able to drive construction of a proof of concept based solely on my Cambigo document. I was able to focus on the solution as a user, and product owner without getting bogged down in technical details.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/09/2025
While Cambigo has been focused on planning and workflow to build comprehensive user experiences, data flows and workflows, there is a gap that needed to be filled to host collaborative discussions and gather feedback from groups of people.
A screenshot of Codazo with a dark background.  It shows a meeting session with the title "This is a Pro Meeting" and a list of participants.  The session has ended and is being redirected to a summary.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/09/2025
For the most part I've answered questions at a high level and told it to continue according to the plan. I'm stunned at what has been produced and I'll be releasing that sometime soon. (Sneak peek: codazo.io)
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Codazo
Codazo enables moderators and participants to collaborate with real-time feedback and respectful privacy controls.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/09/2025
In a few days I wrote a flow for an idea - composed of 58 steps and less than 30% of the detail in each steps, and handed it off to ChatGPT Codex. It actually took a few days for it to work through the flow (and honestly it's still working through the last parts of the most difficult requirements).
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Codazo
Codazo enables moderators and participants to collaborate with real-time feedback and respectful privacy controls.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/09/2025
I have another component of the system that I've started, but I had to set it aside to get this shipped. Once I release Cambigo, this other system component will help direct AI agents to build a proof of concept, and revise it as you change your flow.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/09/2025
I'm working through a final list of findings for Cambigo, and I need to resolve a few performance issues. Hoping to have it ready later this week. I'm fixing Cambigo with Cambigo at this point which is pretty cool!
A screenshot of Cambigo showing a list of items that need to be fixed or adjusted in Cambigo.  The heading is Cambigo Bug Findings and Enhancements, and shows headings like Problems, Dashboard and Editor.
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Informatics FYI @informatics.fyi · 19/09/2025
People are at the beginning and the end of AI. Dependence upon it means that we risk breaking the beginning. informatics.fyi/2025-09-19/
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Human and Artificial Intelligence
Helping people work together with AI, and continuing education.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 26/07/2025
huggingface.co/blog/parquet...
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Parquet Content-Defined Chunking
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 21/05/2025
It’s in the Reddit post linked in here: bsky.app/profile/soso...
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 25/04/2025
This is what I've been up to this week. Next week something sharable maybe? We'll see.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 22/04/2025
Just getting the word out that I'm doing this project. I'd appreciate follows! Subscribe on YouTube too. As of this week I'm a retired federal scientist from HHS, and past innovator at VA and the NWS. I'm trying to get a company going building the informaticist toolkit I wish I had!
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 28/02/2025
Do something at a different location at the same time. Invite sidelined federal employees. Show people the volume of people in our government that have been cast aside, show how it has been broken, tell us the consequences and what we do next. LEAD US NOW!!
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
How human–AI feedback loops alter human perceptual, emotional and social judgements "…AI systems amplify biases, which are further internalized by humans, triggering a snowball effect where small errors in judgement escalate into much larger ones." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 20/12/2024
Would be interested too. Will be getting started soon.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Woah! New Microsoft python packages convert from Office documents into Markdown! github.com/microsoft/ma...
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GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Sofie Van Landeghem @oxykodit.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Starter pack for open-source maintainers in the Python ecosystem! Feel free to share and let me know who I'm missing! go.bsky.app/D2Be5mg
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 09/12/2024
Done! Welcome!
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 09/12/2024
Added! I check most accounts out of curiosity. I follow generously but use this as my primary feed for informatics. Interested to see your LLM book release!
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 06/12/2024
Hi! Any chance you could add a description to your profile? I’ve been skipping over those without one. It might help others too.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/11/2024
I'm not sure of the rate limits, although I have encountered failures responding to longer, more complex questions. I also run ollama locally and use privy in VS Code to connect for a fairly similar GitHub Copilot chat interface and code completion. I'm still looking for a favorite model there.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 29/11/2024
I've been using the Claude Sonnet model in Copilot, and it has been phenomenally useful for coding tasks in Python. Far better experience over GPT.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 28/11/2024
Aside: The irony is that as I compose these posts, GenAI is actively suggesting text to me, and the words fit, but they are completely expressionless.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 28/11/2024
Not that a random post is going to change the world, but I've been thinking a lot about the future and how it might be heavily influenced by text prediction and not human dreams and visions.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 28/11/2024
Value human intelligence over artificial intelligence. From the tools to the content, we wouldn't have any of it without the humans backing it. Human thought is the fuel that keeps GenAI relevant.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 24/11/2024
The work we do in health informatics impacts real people - patients and clinicians. Sometimes it is easy to get caught up with being innovators, while we still need the fundamentals to take care of people. 4/4
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 24/11/2024
We followed similar career paths, but his journey into informatics and patient advocacy was due to the discovery of stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer 3/4.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 24/11/2024
I met Doug on Twitter around 2008, and we shared our adventures and curiosities as developers throughout the years. I found out he had cancer when he created his CancerAsArt Twitter accoount. 2/4
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 24/11/2024
The last person I want to bring over from X in remembrance is Software Architect, Later-in-life Bioinformaticist, and Patient Innovator, Doug Sparling 1/4
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Remembering patient research advocate Doug Sparling | The University of Kansas Cancer Center
An author, artist, musician and technology guru, Doug ultimately found his calling as a cancer research advocate.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 24/11/2024
Hello! My recommendation would be to make a starter kit for German speaking informatics accounts. I wouldn't be able to manage accounts that broadly, but I'd be more than happy to follow and share! It would help you gain German speaking followers that could engage with your content.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 24/11/2024
Tomorrow there will be one more Twitter archive story, and then I move on with my new account here at Bluesky!
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
Thanks for reading, and please keep her memory alive here in the Bluesky. #UnicornJess
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
If you work in this field, make sure that the processes and technology that you introduce, and actions that you take, will make things better for patients and clinicians. Nothing else matters. It is certainly not being cool, or being first. #UnicornJess
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
We are now entering an era where US government may withdraw, or refrain, from building on the advancement of clinical computing in the last 20 years in our healthcare system. #UnicornJess
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
Jess Jacobs is someone we cannot forget. #UnicornJess
A screenshot of Jess' former Twitter account, along with her last messages.
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
Hey! We needed you here!
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
We are still held back by companies who focus more on protecting intellectual property, and market share, rather than open systems to coordinate and deliver care. #UnicornJess
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
For the 10 years I spent in Emergency Medical Services, I cannot quantify the suffering and death I experienced. For everything we've added with technology, we've made it vastly more complicated. #UnicornJess
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
After Jess died, we were adamant that her death must be a catalyst for change. I'm not sure how far we've made it since 2016, but there's no doubt if Jess were still alive, she would still be suffering. #UnicornJess
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
At the time, those of us working in professions to improve the delivery of care, the patient experience, and the demands placed upon clinicians, were shouting our cries across social media to do better. #UnicornJess
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
Jess analyzed her own care, revealing inefficiencies in over 130 medical visits. She worked in roles in HHS that included ONC and FDA, and fixing our broken system seemed possible. #UnicornJess
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
Jess called out systemic inefficiencies that burdened patients with the task of coordinating their own care, and being stranded within the walls of multiple hospitals along with fellow patients. #UnicornJess
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Chris Compton, MSHI @compton.fyi · 23/11/2024
I'm reviving the hashtag used to remember her life #UnicornJess. The links about her are slowly disappearing, and fragments are disappearing. #UnicornJess
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