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
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
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
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
FHIR, the coolest of the uncool
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
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
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