It all started with a cup of coffee in a Starbucks ten months ago. Here we are now launching the FHIR Business Alliance. FHIRBall: Doing business the FHIR way. After the FHIR Connectathon in May 2019, I met with Duncan… Continue reading
The future of Forge – Part II
On October 3rd, we announced that we will change the Forge license. As of January 1st, 2020, the free version of Forge will be licensed for non-commercial use only. We want to secure the future of Forge. Long-term investments in… Continue reading
Securing the future of Forge
On January 1st, 2020, we will issue a new license for Forge, replacing the current license. Forge will remain free for non-commercial use. Commercial use of Forge will be linked to the Simplifier pricing plans, which also give access to… Continue reading
Type Slicing in FHIR R4
FHIR allows resources to introduce polymorphic or choice type elements. A choice type element supports multiple data types. The name of a choice type element always ends with [x]. A profile can constrain the list of allowed data types of… Continue reading
R4 Support in Vonk
TL;DR; Vonk 3.0 provides support for both FHIR STU3 and R4 in one server. One endpoint, two FHIR versions FHIR grew from DSTU1 to R4, with DSTU2 and STU3 as intermediate releases. R5 is already on the horizon and it… Continue reading
The Patient Innovator Track at DevDays
In his closing keynote at DevDays US 2019 Redmond, Grahame Grieve, founder of FHIR, emphasized the importance of the patient perspective in FHIR. We were all inspired by Dana Lewis’s earlier talk. She is the creator of the “Do-It-Yourself Pancreas… Continue reading
Focusing on health outcomes: the patient perspective
During the recent FHIR DevDays in Redmond WA (US), there were a couple of speakers representing the patient perspective. We recorded some video interviews in Redmond to discuss the increasing role of patients within the FHIR community and at FHIR… Continue reading
Firely to set up shop in the US
Here at DevDays US 2019, where I am writing this blog, we just announced a huge milestone for our company: the launch of our US office in Boston. In the city that lives and breaths medical informatics, we set up… Continue reading
The Point Of No Return
FHIR R4, as you all know, is the first release with normative content. R4 will make it easier for CIOs to make investments, and to justify investments to their internal and external stakeholders. With R4, we have reached a point… Continue reading
Custom Resources in Vonk
TL;DR; Vonk FHIR Server supports Custom Resources. Define your own resourcetypes, store and validate them in Vonk just like any other resource. But don’t try to exchange them with others. What are Custom Resources? Custom Resources in this blog and… Continue reading