Private health tech companies are increasingly building data platforms with FHIR at the center. The logic is sound. Consolidate data from multiple sources and systems into a single “Platform”, and store it in a structured and well understood format. Make it available for AI, for research, for...
“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...
I was in a meeting a couple of years ago at a global life-sciences company where I spent 20 minutes explaining the limitations of FHIR. My role at the company was advising the technical architects as they put together their data flows and transformations, and incorporated FHIR into their...
If you’re mid-build or have just launched a FHIR implementation, my book gives you a framework to help make better decisions. What it doesn’t do is tell you where your specific architecture stands right now: what works well and what is likely to break later. That’s what I’m offering. FHIR...