FHIR Opinions

FHIR Consultancy Update

Every once in a while it’s good to share what I’m actually up to beyond the FHIR articles...

“We should only use FHIR resource types that are normative.” I’ve heard this many times, usually from project...

Three years ago I wrote a post arguing for better tools for developers working with FHIR. I’d just...

Google search is the entry point to most websites. The FHIR documentation is no exception. The problem is...

Casual use of the term “FHIR database” needs to be actively discouraged. It pops up all the time...

In a perfect world your app could access any FHIR server. It wouldn’t matter who provided the server...

FHIR SDKs hide things from us. Not intentionally. There’s no malicious agent at work here. But SDKs are...

Every fully featured application has a unique FHIR data model. Not 100% unique, but unique enough to make...

There’s not enough discussion around the dangers of GET requests in FHIR. It seems like every tutorial or...

FHIR extensions are a controversial topic. There’s a school of thought that says no individual organization should create...

Every FHIR server in production performs some validation. But how much is enough? And is it possible or...

Managed FHIR servers on the cloud dominate the server narrative. Azure, AWS and GCP are heavily invested in...