Radar IF: monitoring of official health-policy sources
Radar IF is our own monitoring service for Brazilian public-health policy. Several times an hour, scheduled jobs check official sources (Brazil's Federal Official Gazette, the health ministry, regulators, and international feeds such as WHO, PAHO, the UK Department of Health and Social Care and the US FDA), remove duplicates, score relevance and save drafts. Nothing from a feed is published automatically: a person approves publication, and each entry goes out with its source link, source date and a "why it matters" note.
What it shows
- Running publicly since September 2026. The first published entry is dated 9 September 2026.
- Deduplication by URL and by legal-act key (type, agency, number, year). Errata and personnel acts are dropped.
- The system records who approved each entry and when.
- The build refuses to publish an external entry that lacks a source link, source name, source date or "why it matters" note, or that still carries the review flag.
- Each entry has a headline, summary, why it matters, who it affects, recommended actions, and deadlines when the source gives them.
- A public archive with search, topic filters, an upcoming-deadlines list and a daily "read in 2 minutes" edition.
- Sources, methods and the correction policy are published on a public methodology page.
Limits we state openly
The content is almost entirely about Brazil. As of 30 October 2026, about a quarter of published entries still have Portuguese text in their English fields. The methodology page discloses that entries published before 13 October 2026 were batch-approved rather than read one by one. The optional drafting step through Anthropic's Claude API has been switched off since 13 October 2026; drafts now come from a rule-based drafter. Radar IF publishes to a web archive and does not send email.
Tech
Node.js collectors (RSS and Atom feeds, gov.br pages and APIs, structured data from the Official Gazette), GitHub Actions schedules, a JSON data store versioned in Git, a static page generator, Netlify, and an admin review panel.