I’ve been working with healthcare data for nearly 20 years, during that time there have been many different takes on the correct technical solution to adopt for the technical interchange of data (HL7v2, HL7v3, CDA, FHIR etc). Some have clearly been more successful than others (within England). From my perspective…

In my day job, I work for the English National Health Service (NHS) where I lead a team responsible for the development of numerous APIs. The APIs we create today make use of the FHIR standard from HL7 which is somewhat taking the healthcare IT world by storm. Although largely…

This “story” is written as a response to the one that describes how references can be used in FHIR within the NHS. Like my previous post which was also a response to another Medium story, this is intended to be a constructive response. As Kevin points out the subject of…

After reading the post from Marcus Baw at https://medium.com/@marcus_baw/why-the-trud-must-die-ac27377ee189 I felt compelled to respond, not to disagree with the comments Marcus made but more to share how things have changed in recent years. Marcus quite correctly pointed out the state of affairs in the “interoperability” space, as was at the…