Fhir

Resources don’t exist in isolation. The true power of FHIR lies in the links between resources that combined paint a complex picture of a patient’s journey over time. A Patient enters a hospital, is diagnosed with an illness by a doctor, leading to a scan followed by a procedure. …

There is a seismic shift happening in US Healthcare but it’s flying below the radar for many of us. Yesterday marked a key inflection point. Yesterday was July 1, 2021. In the United States, all Payers must now provide APIs for Members (what a Payer calls a Patient) to access…

All FHIR resources contain attributes defined in Resource, and most FHIR resources contain attributes defined in DomainResource. They do this by extending one or the other. If you come from a software development background, consider Resource to be the base object and DomainResource a derived object that inherits from (extends)…

Fun or No Fun — how serious is it? Large language models are stirring up some phenomena in recent months. So inevitably I was playing ChatGPT too over last weekend, to probe whether it would be a complimentary to some BERT based “traditional” AI chatbots I was knocking up, or rather would it simply sweep them away. A thought…

When constructing a Postman request or writing code using your FHIR SDK, do you refer to the documentation regularly, or depend on trial, error and IntelliSense? It may seem obvious, but being able to read and understand the FHIR documentation at a glance makes development faster and easier. The Cardinality…

It covers everything a beginner should know and it does so in plain English. No jargon, no complexity, no long winded explanations. - James goes through the origins of FHIR - How to navigate the daunting FHIR documentation on the HL7 website - How to build search queries Everything you need to get you started populating your first resource and running your first query. To hear more from me, you can follow me on Twitter or on LinkedIn.

There’s something about extensions that say “advanced” or “here be dragons” to a developer in their early weeks (and sometimes months) of FHIR development. Here’s how the conversation typically goes: - I have this value, but it doesn’t fit anywhere in the Condition resource. …

The world appears to have gone ChatGPT crazy recently. I only discovered it just before Christmas when members of the open health platforms community on Twitter started to geek off. …

You’ll find lists of FHIR test servers in a variety of places, but most are not kept up to date. The servers below are all accessible right now and have been for months or even years. You’re free to run GET and POST requests against all of them. Great for testing your code before you hit your own company’s Dev server! But remember they’re public, so no sensitive or PII data! HAPI: http://hapi.fhir.org/baseR4/ (321,000 Patient records)