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Sidharth Ramesh
Sidharth Ramesh
10 January 2025

What is FHIR? A Beginner's Guide

Learn 5 Key HL7 FHIR Concepts - Resources, Data Elements, Profiles, Exchange Paradigms, and Implementation Guides.

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Vipin Santhosh
7 August 2024

How to Create an EHRbase Plugin

Extend your openEHR Server! Learn how to create an EHRbase plugin that can make additional calls to the database and create a transactional outbox.

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Vipin Santhosh
12 August 2024

FHIR CDS Hook Service: How to Create One in 10 mins!

Follow along and create your first HL7 FHIR CDS Hooks Service using NodeJS and the CDS Hooks Sandbox in less than 10 minutes.

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Sidharth Ramesh
Sidharth Ramesh
16 August 2024

HL7 FHIR CDS Hooks - A Practical Guide

HL7 CDS Hooks is a specification by HL7 that enables EHRs to integrate Clinical Decision Support using RESTful HTTP APIs.

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Ashabil Rizhana
Ashabil Rizhana
15 July 2024

Which Health IT Standard to Pick: FHIR, openEHR, or OMOP?

Each domain has its own best-suited standard: FHIR, openEHR, and OMOP respectively. There's an art to picking the standard for the data use case.

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Kritika Goyal
Kritika Goyal
16 June 2024

What is a FHIR Terminology Service?

The FHIR terminology service offers functions derived from a collection of CodeSystem, ValueSet, and ConceptMap resources.

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Ashabil Rizhana
Ashabil Rizhana
15 July 2024

Breaking Down the Healthcare Giant into 3 Distinct Business Models

Explore Clayton M. Christensen's vision for healthcare in "The Innovator's Prescription" – a groundbreaking approach to improving patient care.

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Ashabil Rizhana
Ashabil Rizhana
15 July 2024

What is an Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI)?

Discover the critical role of Enterprise Master Patient Indexes (EMPI) in managing patient data across healthcare systems, ensuring accuracy and safety in treatment.

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Ashabil Rizhana
Ashabil Rizhana
13 December 2024

How To Create Your First FHIR Resource Like A Pro

Learn to create FHIR patient resources: Navigate HL7, use JSON schemas and code with VS Code for seamless development. Learn healthcare interoperability step-by-step.

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Kritika Goyal
Kritika Goyal
16 June 2024

Exploring FHIR Paradigms: Case Studies Across the Globe

FHIR boosts healthcare data exchange, linking clinical, admin, and research via EHR, REST, Documents, Messages, and Services.

Unleashing the Power of FHIR Paradigms: A Global Perspective on Implementation and Best Practices

Poornachandra Vivekanenda
Poornachandra Vivekanenda
16 June 2024

Volume based care to Value based care in India

India's PM-JAY aims for value-based care with bundled pricing, tech access, and quality incentives for better health outcomes.

Volume based care to Value based care in India - A brief for healthcare leaders

Poornachandra Vivekanenda
Poornachandra Vivekanenda
16 June 2024

Migrating Legacy Data to FHIR at scale using ETL's

ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) moves data from legacy systems to FHIR, using Apache Debezium and Nifi for syncing databases in FHIR format.

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