Best Practices & Standards
OHEMR Epic Best Practices & Standards
Welcome to our Best Practices & Standards section! Here you'll find the organizational guidelines, recommended patterns, and usage standards that help us build scalable, secure, and maintainable systems. Although this area is still growing, we're excited to share what we have—and we welcome your input on what topics to add next!
Current Topics
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Load Balancing Dive into our approach for distributing traffic effectively and ensuring high availability. Check out our Load Balancing guidelines for more details.
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Golden Images Learn about our standards for creating and maintaining Golden Images to ensure systems are built on a solid and proven foundation.
Future Topics & Suggestions
We’re actively looking to expand this section with additional best practices. Some areas we’re considering include:
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Security Best Practices: Guidelines for secure coding, vulnerability management, and access controls to protect our critical systems.
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Coding Standards: Recommended coding conventions and practices to improve code readability, maintainability, and quality.
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Monitoring & Incident Response: Strategies for effective system monitoring, alerting, and incident management to ensure rapid response to issues.
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Disaster Recovery & Backup: Approaches and standards for safeguarding data and ensuring quick recovery in the event of system failures.
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Performance Optimization: Best practices for tuning and scaling applications to achieve optimal performance under varying loads.
Collaboration & Integration
We’re also exploring ways to integrate this content with our "Guides and How-To's" to create a comprehensive resource for our team. Your feedback is invaluable—if you have suggestions, improvements, or ideas for additional topics, please share your thoughts with us.
Our goal is to provide you with clear and actionable guidance to support your day-to-day work and long-term projects. Thank you for being an essential part of our continuous improvement journey.
Happy building!