By Rob Mulders – During the May 2015 FHIR connectathon in Paris, somebody asked me how much time it would take him to make his first FHIR client application. It inspired me to write a sort of Hello World program… Continue reading →
In preparation for the upcoming HL7 International Working Group Meeting in Paris, we have been working on upgrading Forge, the FHIR profile editor, to conform to the current FHIR DSTU 2 specifications. In this post I’d like to provide an overview… Continue reading →
Last week, I implemented the $meta, $meta-add and $meta-delete operations in Ewout’s FHIR .NET API . This gave me the idea to write a blogpost about how FHIR metadata has changed between DSTU-1 and the current version of FHIR (v0.4.0).… Continue reading →
In a previous article we introduced the concept of FHIR implementation guides. Recently our FHIR team at Firely had another in-depth discussion about this topic. In this follow up I’d like to share some more details concerning the concept architecture of implementation guides. An… Continue reading →
After two years of building and improving our FHIR server, we are now slowly entering the phase where we as a company start asking the question how an actual implementation of a FHIR server will look. Will it just be… Continue reading →
Firely has recently been exploring the topic of authoring implementation guides for FHIR profiles. In this blog posting, I’d like to share some of our preliminary ideas with you. First let’s introduce a couple of key concepts. So what is a… Continue reading →
First of all, let’s start with some introductions: My name is Marten Smits, I am Ewout’s colleague, and formerly an intern at Firely. I graduated last July at the University of Amsterdam, where I studied Medical Informatics. Since August, I… Continue reading →
As I said last week, most of my work currently centers around implementing FHIR’s Profile functionality. It’s a very important bit of the FHIR standard, but it is -as yet- invisible and hard to grasp for many. As well, I… 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 →
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 →