The FHIR DevDays program for 2026 was released a few days ago.
The focus this year leans heavily toward AI – no surprise there. A lot of familiar faces and familiar companies, but a few pleasant surprises in the mix as well.
The program: https://www.devdays.com/devdays-agenda-2026/
While I’m hoping to attend, it will be a last minute decision for me. If I could buy a virtual ticket, I’d jump at it, as would many others. (nudge, nudge!)
I’ve singled out 5 presentations I’d like to see.
1. “Persist & Govern FHIR at Large Scale Enterprise: Challenges and Patterns”
FHIR performance and conformance at scale, examining the patterns and trade-offs in building a large enterprise system at Northwestern Medicine. Exactly the kind of real-world project we need to see more of at DevDays.
~ Lima Chatterjee, (Northwestern Medicine)
2. “A FHIR Proxy for Multi-Source Merge and Harmonization Using FHIRPath Rules”
A Peruvian health insurer manages merging data from 7 source systems, handling duplication and conflicts using a FHIR proxy and FHIRPath expressions. This is FHIR innovation at scale in the wild.
~ Maico Bernal, (UMA Health)
3. “AI + FHIR: Learnings from building ChatGPT Health”
A bird’s eye view of the limitations and solutions involved in building ChatGPT Health using FHIR. This is as timely and on-topic as it gets.
~ Imran Qureshi, (b.well Connected Health)
4. “Italy’s EHR 2.0: Architecting a Regional FHIR Data Ecosystem”
A soon-to-be-live system handling 2 million daily transactions for 9 million citizens. It’s great to get insights into the implementation details of these national programs. We need more presentations like this.
~ Alessandro Palmieri & Ilenia Centonze, (Healthy Reply)
5. “AI Transparency on FHIR: The power of observability”
A look at the the AI Transparency on FHIR IG, used for representing the usage of AI in influencing FHIR resources. This IG needs more exposure. It’s so relevant, and addresses an immediate need in many organizations.
~ Sam Schifman, (Vantiq)
Here’s the program: https://www.devdays.com/devdays-agenda-2026/
If you won’t be attending, the videos normally come out 6 months later. Of course – if there were virtual tickets, many more of us could attend. (another nudge 😀)
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