Darren Devitt
One of the first FHIR projects I worked on used an open-source library from a big-name FHIR server provider to convert HL7 v2 and CCDA direct to FHIR. It used liquid templates that claimed to be customizable but in practice were fixed. It worked for the first hospital integration, failed for...
Darren Devitt
Data is building up in your FHIR server. What’s next? The business weighs in: “We have all this rich patient data. What can we use it for?” Analytical dashboards, AI ingestion, academic and business research. To use healthcare data for these purposes in a compliant and legal way often...
Darren Devitt
“FHIR Compliant” does not mean what you think it means. Let’s say you want to integrate with a number of different EHRs. Each one claims FHIR compliance and each one has comprehensive API documentation. You get to work, confident that you can build a single interface to talk FHIR to each...
Darren Devitt
The online FHIR community and events like DevDays lean heavily toward the US and Europe. But that’s a filtered reality. FHIR is being used all over the world, and hard questions are being asked about how to use it in many countries that are not strongly represented in FHIR discussions. I...