Author
Benjamin Novakovic
CTO and Co-founder, Eirly Health
Benjamin Novakovic is co-founder and engineering lead at Eirly Health (Bloody Good Tests). He has spent his career as a front-end and iOS engineer, including a stint at Twitter working on Twitter #Music, before turning to healthtech. At Eirly Health, Ben builds the platform and pathology API that connect practitioners, labs and the people they care for, most recently a developer-facing MCP server for the API. Outside work, he is a Formula One fan and the son of an ophthalmologist.
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Written by Benjamin
- Pathology API for Australia
A REST API for ordering pathology and specialist tests from Australian labs and getting structured results back. Referrals, webhooks, bundles and more.
- Lab results API for Australian pathology
Pathology results as structured JSON: the lab's own value, a canonical value in one agreed unit, and the lab's report text. Webhooks notify, you fetch.
- Pathology MCP server for developers
A public, read-only developer MCP server for the Eirly Health pathology API. No sign-up. Works with Claude Code, Cursor and Windsurf. Eight tools.
- Lab testing API Australia: what to look for
What to check in a lab testing API with an Australian lens: lab coverage, Medicare ordering, normalised results, webhooks and a sandbox.
- LOINC normalisation in Australia
What LOINC is, why lab results need normalising, and how it applies to Australian pathology. Sources and date checked included.
- HL7 pathology in Australia explained
HL7 v2 messaging and AS 4700.2 for Australian pathology, and where a REST API fits. Sources and date checked included.
- HL7 pathology reconciliation
The same marker from five labs arrives with four naming conventions and three unit systems. Here is what that costs.