FHIR’s Architectural Blind Spots
Over the past few weeks I’ve written three posts that explore a pattern I see repeatedly in FHIR...
FHIR Has a StackOverflow Problem
Every software developer in the world has used Stack Overflow. It’s a question and answer website created in...
A FHIR Cheat Sheet for Technical Architects
My introduction to FHIR came as a technical architect working a short contract for a US health insurance...
The Costliest FHIR Mistakes
I work with a lot of different organizations at various stages of their FHIR development. My role is...
Data Leadership for MedTech Companies
Medical device and hardware companies rarely excel when it comes to the less physical side of the business:...
Migrating a ServiceRequest from R4 to R6
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the upcoming changes in FHIR R6 and how any future...
FHIR Catalysts: Regulation & AI
In the early years of FHIR, evangelism was the order of the day. Sharing patient data, improving patient...
Approaches to Multi-Tenancy in FHIR
How do the different FHIR server providers handle or recommend you handle multi-tenancy? In this context multi-tenancy refers...
FHIR data mapping with Claude.ai
How would a mature AI like Claude perform at a real-world task on a real-world FHIR project? I’m...
Is FHIR the answer to your problem?
Not every healthcare data project should be a FHIR project. FHIR server vendors will be quick to disagree,...
The FHIR validation nobody talks about
If you Google FHIR validation you’ll find a lot of articles and posts about the $validate operation, others...
Open Source FHIR Project Recommendations
FHIR Proxies Last month I gave a talk at FHIR DevDays in Amsterdam on the need to build...