7 FHIR Tools Businesses Need
FHIR is mature. The tools are not. Real businesses and organizations use FHIR servers. They need real, professional...
Vaccines in FHIR
How is the administration of vaccines captured in FHIR? A recent tragic story in the Irish media brought...
FHIR’s Who, What & When
Data flows into FHIR servers from many sources. That same data is often consumed by a host of...
Data Types — the Building Blocks of FHIR
There are 145 resource types in FHIR spanning all of healthcare. Examples are Patient, Procedure, Claim, Condition and...
FHIR’s Conditional Create
Have you ever used a Conditional Create in FHIR? It ensures that a new resource is only created...
31 FHIR Server Providers
The list below was updated in February 2026 and includes all the providers I’m aware of as well...
FHIR: Beyond the basics
My first 6 months working with FHIR, I thought: “This is easy.” The next six months were filled...
Consuming FHIR’s Resource Documentation
Developers don’t read the documentation. We think we can work it out on-the-fly. This is why so many...
Composite Search Parameters in FHIR
FHIR is not SQL. In SQL you can build complicated queries that span multiple columns and tables. In...
Who is responsible for data in FHIR?
I have a FHIR question that I don’t know the answer to. It’s a question that I feel...
Getting Terminology Right in FHIR
The CodeableConcept is THE most important FHIR data type. If you’re new to healthcare data or to FHIR,...
Searching FHIR with POST requests
When is a search query in FHIR not a GET request? When it’s a POST request and you...