We (in this case me, and my colleague Martijn) are currently writing the Profile validation subsystem for the .NET reference implementation. If you have spent time looking at the Profile specification you can probably sympathise that this is nor an… Continue reading →
At the upcoming May HL7 Workgroup Meeting in Phoenix, we will organize the 6th FHIR Connectathon. Track 2 will focus on Questionnaires, so both client and server developers can test their skills at creating and supporting the Questionnaire resource. As well,… Continue reading →
(and here’s part 2: ) https://vimeo.com/88235048 Granted, FHIR Profiles are some of the more complex parts of the HL7 FHIR standard, but also one of the most important ones to learn about if you want to adapt FHIR to your needs… Continue reading →
At yesterday’s Accenture event in San Antonio we had an entertaining discussion on how to present narrative in sections of a FHIR document. It’s definitely not immediately obvious that FHIR is quite flexible about dealing with such text, so I’ll… Continue reading →
Today’s HL7 UK connectathon was a first for many of the participants. It was certainly the first European hackathon and for most the first time working with FHIR. For many it was also a renewed acquintance with HL7, especially in… Continue reading →
Rene Spronk and I had fun last week recording videos at Furore headquarters in Amsterdam to promote the 1-day FHIR training courses that I will be giving in various cities around Europe. So far, we are scheduled to go to… Continue reading →
NOTE! Updated for FHIR 0.9 If you’re building a Fhir Client or Server, you will soon or later encouter the issue of Fhir’s (or rather Http’s) use of content types and character sets. They are easy to get wrong, and… Continue reading →
Search is a beast. For client developers, things look bright: not only is there a generous amount of query possibilities per resource, you can get paged results and you can ask the server to include related resources in the returned… Continue reading →
Some of you have asked me why, since our latest (0.7) Fhir Xml format, we use attributes to contain most of the “primitive” values, instead of the somewhat more common elements. E.g. for birthdate we now use: <birthDate value=”1972-11-30″/> instead… Continue reading →
After almost two years of working on FHIR, things are starting to take shape: a draft standard for trial use in September, more and more people joining in to shape the standard and participate in a connectathon. But there’s so… Continue reading →