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openmed-skills

De-identify PHI, run clinical NER, export FHIR, evaluate with leakage gates, and the healthcare workflows around them.

Plugin bundle · by maziyarpanahi

About

openmed-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by maziyarpanahi. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). The last change we recorded was on 2026-11-02. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-03.

What it asks for

  • Installs as a plugin bundle

None of the marketplaces we read publishes its tools or the settings it asks for.

What it declares, asks for and runs, in full

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Works with

  • Claude Code

From the marketplaces that list it and the MCP transport it declares, as each client documents them. We do not test plugins.

Connect

Commands and configs built only from what its marketplaces declare. We do not run them for you and do not test plugins.

As a Claude Code plugin

Built from what Community GitHub marketplaces declares.

Claude CodeInside a Claude Code session
/plugin marketplace add maziyarpanahi/openmed
/plugin install openmed-skills@openmed-skills

Where it is published

MarketplaceStatusVersionFiguresVerifiedFirst seen
Community marketplace maziyarpanahi/openmed (Open the source on GitHub) Listed not stated Forks (GitHub): 733
Stars (GitHub): 5 765
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Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

Listed in one community marketplace
MarketplaceRepositoryStars (GitHub)
openmed-skills maziyarpanahi/openmed 5 765

Which marketplaces we read and how we check them

How its figures have moved

Forks (GitHub)
+4 since 29.10
727-733 · 4 readings
  1. 2026-10-29729
  2. 2026-10-30727
  3. 2026-11-01728
  4. 2026-11-02733
Stars (GitHub)
+39 since 29.10
5.7k-5.8k · 4 readings
  1. 2026-10-295.7k
  2. 2026-10-305.7k
  3. 2026-11-015.7k
  4. 2026-11-025.8k

Each dot is a day we read a different number; flat stretches are days the number did not move. Figures of different marketplaces are never added up.

What the bundle contains

As published on Community GitHub marketplaces.

Skills: 74

  • annotating-variants
  • ask-openmed
  • assembling-fhir-bundles
  • auditing-deid-leakage
  • auditing-deidentification-runs
  • auditing-part11-trails
  • auditing-safe-harbor-checklist
  • auditing-subgroup-fairness
  • authoring-model-cards
  • batch-processing-clinical-text
  • benchmark-pii-recall
  • benchmarking-clinical-ner
Show the remaining 62
  • bridging-presidio-and-spacy
  • building-gold-corpus
  • building-patient-timelines
  • building-with-openmed
  • checking-hipaa-compliance
  • choosing-openmed-models
  • coding-hcc-risk-adjustment
  • coding-icd10
  • computing-ecqms
  • configuring-privacy-policies
  • defining-cohort-phenotypes
  • deidentify-a-dataset
  • deidentifying-clinical-text
  • deidentifying-multilingual-text
  • deploying-openmed-mcp
  • detecting-pv-signals
  • enforcing-nophi-logging
  • etl-to-omop-cdm
  • evaluating-with-leakage-gates
  • exporting-bulk-fhir
  • exporting-to-fhir
  • extract-clinical-entities-to-fhir
  • extracting-clinical-entities
  • extracting-dicom-metadata
  • extracting-lab-tables
  • extracting-pii-entities
  • extracting-sdoh
  • fetching-fhir-resources
  • gating-deid-leakage
  • generating-synthea-data
  • generating-synthetic-surrogates
  • ingesting-clinical-documents
  • linking-umls-concepts
  • loading-openmed-models
  • mapping-loinc
  • mapping-to-snomed
  • mining-pubmed-literature
  • normalizing-rxnorm
  • parsing-ccda-documents
  • parsing-hl7v2-messages
  • parsing-lab-values
  • parsing-trial-eligibility
  • pick-a-pii-model
  • pseudonymizing-for-gdpr
  • querying-openfda-labels
  • querying-terminology-service
  • reconciling-problem-lists
  • reidentifying-text
  • reporting-adverse-events
  • resolving-clinical-context
  • reviewing-reidentification-risk
  • running-openmed-ondevice
  • running-zeroshot-ner
  • scaffolding-smart-on-fhir
  • searching-clinicaltrials
  • segmenting-clinical-sections
  • serving-openmed-rest-api
  • setup-openmed
  • shifting-clinical-dates
  • structuring-radiology-reports
  • summarizing-clinical-notes
  • validating-us-core

What changed

  1. Became a product we track
  2. Community GitHub marketplaces: appeared

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