Announcing: The Clinical Data Failure
Healthcare data programs fail for predictable reasons. The size of the organization, the amount of money thrown at...
FHIR Advanced Architect Certification Exam
HL7 have opened up their new FHIR Advanced Architect Certificate exam for pilot users this month. I spent...
AI Generated FHIR Bundle Failures
A year ago I tested Claude and ChatGPT side-by-side to see how well they could generate FHIR data....
The Problem with FHIR Facades
If you’re implementing FHIR to meet a regulatory requirement, facades can look attractive. The regulation specifies the data...
The best EHDS resource I know
There’s nothing simple about EHDS. Are we an EHR or not? Do we have to worry about secondary...
You might be an EHR and not know it
Governments across Europe are preparing for EHDS, but private healthcare businesses are not. That’s what I’m seeing on...
What FHIR server vendors don’t tell you
I work with a lot of organizations using FHIR for the first time. It always starts with me...
FHIR Unscoped: How a six month project took two years
You didn’t build RBAC, because you thought SMART on FHIR had you covered. “Read” scopes made you think...
WHO Reference Architecture for Digital Health
Every national digital health program thinks its situation is unique. Different legacy systems, different regulations, different politics, different...
FHIR as a Data Platform – A $50 million warning
Private health tech companies are increasingly building data platforms with FHIR at the center. The logic is sound....
FHIR is not AI-ready by default
There is a widespread assumption that FHIR and AI are a natural fit. That once your data is...
Is openEHR the Linux of clinical data standards?
openEHR is technically superior to FHIR as a clinical data model but the market doesn’t seem to care....