Before You Choose a FHIR Server
Every FHIR project has deal breakers. Requirements that rule out entire classes of servers. Problem is, early decisions...
Comparing FHIR server performance
The team at Health Samurai have kicked off something worth watching. A comparison project to measure the performance...
FHIR Server Vendor Lock-in
“We can always switch to a different FHIR server later.” I’ve heard this so many times in the...
FHIR Server Implementations
How do you bring FHIR into your organization? Let’s assume you need to expose data via a FHIR...
The 9 Open Source FHIR Servers
[Updated February 2026] These are all the Open Source FHIR servers I am aware of. Most are R4...
The 5 Categories of FHIR Server Provider
There are upwards of 30 FHIR server providers. The decision of which one to use usually starts with...
How to Compare FHIR Servers
Choosing a FHIR server provider happens early in a project. The decision is often made without asking key...
FHIR Survey: Who provides your FHIR server?
There is a healthy diversity in the FHIR server market. No one company or approach to FHIR server management has a monopoly.
Azure FHIR’s Resource Truncation
A common limitation of managed FHIR servers is how they restrict the number of “included” resources returned in...
Managed FHIR Servers
I question whether any critical app or solution should use a managed FHIR server. The big cloud providers...
A FHIR Server Comparison using “Quantity” Searches
How well implemented are common search parameters by different FHIR server providers? This is a question I started...
Microsoft Azure’s FHIR servers
Microsoft Azure is the most commonly chosen FHIR server provider. This comes from a survey I ran a...