This study proposes and implements a secure data integration pipeline using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard to address challenges like data fragmentation and security vulnerabilities. This system achieves enhanced interoperability across diverse platforms while ensuring data protection through advanced encryption and compliance management.
This article explains the usage of the Microsoft Azure PowerShell cmdlet `Get-AzHealthcareFhirDestination`. This command is used to list all FHIR destinations associated with a specified IoT Connector. It allows users to verify the configuration components for healthcare data integration within an Azure environment.
Darren Devitt published a tutorial detailing 19 advanced search queries for FHIR servers, based on his DevDays presentation. These examples demonstrate complex data retrieval methods—such as filtering by specific conditions, timeframes, or related resources—providing valuable references for practical API development.
This article defines the structure of the 'AS Person Deceased Date Time Extension' within FHIR resources. This extension is designed to append information regarding a person's date and time of death, detailing its specific components and data types.
The FEvIR® platform, provided by Computable Publishing LLC, offers an environment for viewing medical information resources based on the FHIR standard. This tool allows data inspection in formats like JSON and text, utilizing current builds of FHIR and EBMonFHIR IG.
Firely announced that its founder and CEO, Rien Wertheim, will step down at the end of 2025, with Martine Berden succeeding him as CEO. Both individuals will immediately serve as Co-CEOs to support a seamless transition and maintain strategic continuity.
This technical article provides a guide on securing the open-source HL7 FHIR implementation, HAPI FHIR. It details how to enable TLS encryption for both the embedded web server and the PostgreSQL database, ensuring that all data communication paths are protected.
This article explains how to secure healthcare data 'at rest' using open-source HAPI FHIR. Specifically, it details the process of achieving database-level encryption by utilizing the Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Docker image and the `pg_tde` extension.
Google Cloud explains the concept of referential integrity within FHIR stores used with the Cloud Healthcare API. It details that operations like creating, updating, or deleting resources will fail if they contain references to non-existent resources.
InterSystems is hosting an online meetup featuring the winners of the FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest. The event will provide a platform for discussion and demonstrations related to 11 applications that participated in the contest.
InterSystems is hosting an online meetup for the winners of the FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the winners' applications and interact with the expert team.
This article presents a digital logo design concept for a healthcare IT course. The logo, themed 'IHE on FHIR,' visualizes real-world interoperability by combining a smart cityscape with the 'Star of Life' symbol. Using blues and whites, it emphasizes reliability and innovation through data connectivity.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server has been released as a sample integration with a FHIR server. This allows developers to demonstrate specific operations, such as creating and reading FHIR resources (e.g., Patient or Appointment), via the MCP framework.
This paper discusses integrating Salesforce Health Cloud with FHIR standards to solve the problem of data fragmentation arising from siloed systems like EHRs and CRMs. This enables healthcare providers to gain a comprehensive understanding of patients, aiming for improved care coordination and outcomes.
InterSystems has released 'IRIS Interop DevTools' to simplify access to CCDA and FHIR transformation capabilities. This tool is designed to allow implementers to immediately view the product's built-in transformation features, aiming to improve development efficiency.
EBMcalc has released updates to its medical calculator tools, introducing numerous new scores for predicting disease risk and assessing prognosis. These include indicators such as the BLISS Score for COPD admission prediction and the CLIF-SOFA score for acute liver disease patients.
This study assessed the realization of preventing semantic ambiguities when patient data are electronically exchanged, a goal of the FHIR standard. Focusing on the 'Condition' resource, it examined combinations of 'clinical status' and 'verification status,' identifying multiple semantic difficulties within their definitions and allowed values.