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.
Medblocks Blog
Everything about health information standards like openEHR, FHIR, SNOMED CT, LOINC and more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sidharth Ramesh
4 December 2024
How to Enable FHIR Profile Validation with HAPI FHIR JPA Server
Walkthrough on how to configure HAPI FHIR to do profile validation for you, and few fundamental concepts of FHIR Profiles.
Sidharth Ramesh
3 January 2025
FHIR vs. Traditional HL7: What Makes This Standard So Different?
Discover why FHIR is changing healthcare IT. Learn about FHIR's advantages over traditional HL7 standards like v2, C-CDA and v3, its rapid adoption, and how it simplifies health data exchange.
