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Ashwin Swaminathan
20 February 2025

Patient App Integration with SMART on Epic - How To Guide - The Fundamentals

Healthcare apps rely on a powerful framework called SMART on FHIR, a technology that’s quietly transforming healthcare. In this series, we’ll uncover how it works, and by the end, you’ll know how to build your SMART-powered health app from the ground up.

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Vipin Santhosh
25 February 2025

How to build your first FHIR application using AI in 30 minutes

With the revolutionary technology of Large Language Models and AI assisted coding tools, building healthcare applications are no longer reserved for the seasoned programmers. This article is an introduction to building a FHIR web app for an absolute beginner using AI coding tools and techniques.

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Safa
12 February 2025

FHIR Questionnaire vs Composition: Which Do You Need?

One organizes existing health data and the other gathers new inputs. Which is which? Do you need both? Read on to find out.

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Ashwin Swaminathan
12 February 2025

Lessons from E-Patient Dave’s Journey and the Changes We Need

E-Patient Dave’s journey highlights the power of patient data access, collaboration, and open standards like FHIR and openEHR in transforming healthcare and redefining the doctor-patient relationship.

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Abhinand Krishnan
31 January 2025

How we Optimized Patient Search Speed by 90% Using Postgres Text Search

Leveraging PostgreSQL’s native full-text search, we cut query times from seconds to milliseconds, giving clinicians instant access to critical patient data.

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Safa
29 January 2025

Catalonia’s Digital Health Revolution: Jordi Piera on Building an Open Platform

Catalonia is set to make history by building the world’s first open-source, interoperable unified health record under the guidance of the Director of Digital Health Strategy—Jordi Piera.

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Poornachandra Vivekanenda
28 January 2025

Designing for Doctors: A FHIR-Driven Approach to Patient Management That Clinicians Actually Use

Explore how Medblocks' user-friendly patient management solution, powered by FHIR APIs, optimizes hospital workflows. The design prioritizes clinician efficiency and flexibility, facilitating easy registration and real-time patient tracking. Discover how a user-centered design and vendor-neutral APIs enhance healthcare delivery.

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Safa
24 January 2025

FHIR Questionnaire Essentials: How to Get Started

Is it even possible to have healthcare forms that comply with a unified standard? In this tutorial, we explore FHIR's Questionnaire resource, which is a step in the right direction.

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Ashabil Rizhana
Ashabil Rizhana
17 January 2025

Why FHIR Matters: Grahame Grieve’s Mission to End Data Fragmentation

Grahame Grieve, known as the “father of FHIR,” stops by the Digital Health Hackers podcast with an update on global adoption and we look at some of the ongoing stumbling blocks to universal data sharing.

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Safa
7 January 2025

The Mind Behind etherCIS Takes on Healthcare’s Disconnected Data Landscape

A thought leader in healthcare technology, Christian Chevalley joins us on the Digital Health Hackers podcast and shares his insights on connecting healthcare's disparate data landscape.

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Satnamsingh Sandhu
1 January 2025

How We Turned a Chaotic, High-Information-Density Interface into a Masterpiece of Functionality

Explore the process of redesigning a user-friendly EHR interface for ophthalmology, emphasizing collaboration with domain experts and iterative design improvements.

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Poornachandra Vivekanenda
Poornachandra Vivekanenda
23 December 2024

Why we're reinventing the EHR

Traditional approaches to healthcare software development have significant drawbacks. We believe a platform that has some standardized features and some extensible features might be the right answer.

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