I work on the systems between evidence and action.

Cole Lyons outdoors above a city skyline, wearing a white shirt, tie, and dark vest
Cole Lyons · healthcare systems engineer, operator, and publisher.

Public data was not the same as usable evidence.

A comparative health-system profile crossed dozens of public sources without producing a dependable answer. That failure became a starting point for Open-Informatics, shaped by a problem I kept seeing in academic work and with AJHCS: students and researchers could find public data, but not the infrastructure needed to use it with provenance intact.

First-party development observation, March 2, 2026; not an independent benchmark.

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