FHIR is the open API for healthcare. Open APIs have brought innovation to numerous industries and they will bring innovation to healthcare. FHIR will inspire entrepreneurs and developers with great ideas to actually build apps that until now never got… Continue reading
DevDays US 2019 – snapshot of the current FHIR scene
More than ever, DevDays US 2019 will be a tech event focusing on education in FHIR. Come on Monday, leave on Wednesday, apply what you have learned on Thursday in your day job. That’s our goal for DevDays. Of the… Continue reading
Cake development
Today is my birthday. Yes, thank you very much. In our offices we have a longstanding tradition of treating your colleagues on your birthday, even now that the company has grown substantially over the years. But between the plank challenges… Continue reading
FHIR R4 Profiling and Forge
In an earlier blog post FHIR R4 at Firely, my colleague Ardon outlined our product roadmap for 2019. In this post, we will explore the changes that FHIR R4 introduces in the profiling and conformance layer and how this affects Forge, the… Continue reading
FHIR R4 at Firely
The FHIR R4 roadmap for the API, Simplifier, Forge and Vonk TL;DR Product Release Expected (2019) Release content .NET API Alpha January R4 resources, FHIR client Beta February Final April Snapshot generation, validation and bug fixes Simplifier Alpha February R4… Continue reading
Our FHIR Product Suite: the Baltimore release
Packaging was the topic of the day during the recent HL7 FHIR WGM in Baltimore. With the “Baltimore Release” of our product suite, we have laid the foundation for versioning in FHIR – and much more. Here are the highlights:… Continue reading
FHIR is no longer just about interoperability
The top tech companies are now in FHIR. Remember the statement by Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce at the US Government meeting in Washington DC this August? As well as that, Microsoft, Google and Philips sponsoring FHIR DevDays… Continue reading
The Simplifier.net FHIR Package Server is up and running (BETA)
For the last year the FHIR core team and the Simplifier team have been working on FHIR packages to solve two big problems: distribution and versioning of your data contracts: profiles, valuesets, code systems, profile extensions, and data types. Last week we… Continue reading
R on FHIR now supports downloading data from FHIR Bulk Data Servers!
Data analysis in healthcare is often about large volumes of data. The current FHIR API works excellent for retrieving small amounts of data, but for retrieving larger volumes of data it can be inefficient. The main reason for this is… Continue reading
Startups in health, here’s your chance to learn FHIR
You have built the greatest healthcare app and a company around it. The app runs on Android and iOS and has that amazing UI that’s rare in healthcare. You also have a stable fanbase of users, telling you they love… Continue reading