Practical FHIR notes on SDC form builders and terminology server implementations for healthcare integration teams.
Ever felt like you were drowning in a sea of incompatible healthcare data? I have. Big time. And honestly, it was affecting my job, my stress levels, and probably my hairline. I’m talking about trying to share patient information between different systems, each speaking its own bizarre dialect of data. Then I discovered the magic […]
Cross-organization FHIR data sharing is enabled by specific patterns. Four cover essentially all production use cases in 2026. **Pattern 1: SMART Backend Services.** Server-to-server integration via JWT assertion + client credentials. Best for automated system-to-system exchange. **Pattern 2: Bulk Data IG $export.** Payer-to-payer, provider-to-analytics. Best for bulk data movement. Pattern 3: FHIR Messaging with signed […]
Complex FHIR platform deployments use specific integration patterns. Five that show up in enterprise settings. Pattern 1: FHIR API gateway. Central gateway routes to backend FHIR servers, enforces auth, normalizes responses. Uses FHIR REST spec as canonical contract. Pattern 2: Multi-tenant FHIR server. Single deployment, multiple tenants isolated by data partition. Common in health plan […]