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Everything about health information standards like openEHR, FHIR, SNOMED CT, LOINC and more.


Ashabil Rizhana
Ashabil Rizhana
19 June 2025

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
19 June 2025

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
19 June 2025

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
23 June 2025

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
23 June 2025

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
18 June 2025

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.

Migrating Legacy Data to FHIR at scale - ETL using Kafka, Debezium, and Nifi

Poornachandra Vivekanenda
Poornachandra Vivekanenda
23 June 2025

The missing step to complete healthcare digitization

Medblocks digitizes India's healthcare, integrating EHRs with Ayushman Bharat, targeting skill gaps and advancing structured data.

The missing step in a move to complete healthcare digitization - A market insight

Sidharth Ramesh
Sidharth Ramesh
23 June 2025

Case Study - Implementing ABDM for the Government of Andhra Pradesh

Medblocks implemented all 3 ABDM milestones for Andhra Pradesh's Health Ministry, overcoming challenges with ABHA API, webhook handling, encryption, and FHIR data transformation, contributing to India's digital healthcare evolution.

Case Study - Implementing ABDM for the Government of Andhra Pradesh

Shilpi Dasgupta
Shaonli Dasgupta
23 June 2025

ABDM: Ushering in the UPI moment of healthcare

ABDM digitalizes India's healthcare with health IDs, interoperability, and data security, aiming for universal coverage via digital platforms.

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission: Ushering in the UPI moment of healthcare

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Safa
9 April 2025

Designing openEHR templates using the Archetype Designer

openEHR standardizes health data with archetypes and templates for interoperability. Templates are built from Archetypes using the Archetype Designer Tool.

Designing openEHR templates using the Archetype Designer

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Safa
9 April 2025

How to Use the openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager

A beginner friendly guide to to navigating the openEHR CKM or Clinical Knowledge Manager, including searching, viewing and downloading clinical artefacts like archetypes and templates.

A Deep Dive Into The Clinical Knowledge Manager

S. B. Bhattacharyya
S. B. Bhattacharyya
20 June 2025

Extensions to SNOMED CT

SNOMED allows creating extensions for terms not in its release, adhering to specific rules for standards. Extensions can map to pre-coordinated concepts or require post-coordination, published with a namespace for semantic interoperability.

Extensions to SNOMED CT
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