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Health Samurai Lab: Aidbox Horizontal & Vertical Scaling
Mar 20, 2026
4 min read
Health Samurai Lab: Aidbox Horizontal & Vertical Scaling

Benchmarking Aidbox with 8 CPU cores: single instance vs multiple. 2×4 loses only 6% RPS but adds redundancy and better P99.

Marat Surmashev

Marat Surmashev

Jan 14, 2026
5 min read
Understanding the CMS-0057-F Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule

CMS-0057-F reshapes interoperability by mandating four FHIR-based APIs and measurable prior authorization standards. Here’s what it changes, who it affects, and why it matters for payers, providers, vendors, and patients.

Mike Kulakov

Mike Kulakov

Oct 7, 2025
7 min read
FHIR R4 vs FHIR R5: Choosing the Right Version for Your Implementation

The FHIR community is at a crossroads. Some rush to explore R5, but many are holding back—waiting for R6, the version that promises to finally bring order, stability, and confidence to years of rapid evolution.

Vlad Zholnerchuk

Vlad Zholnerchuk

Mar 16, 2026
3 min read
Trap of Escape: Residual Categories in FHIR Terminology

Why codes like 'other', 'unknown', and 'unspecified' in medical terminologies break terminology evolution and interoperability.

Nikolai Ryzhikov

Nikolai Ryzhikov

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Apr 3, 2026
10 min read
FHIR Package Management: Pinning, Tree-Shaking, and Why Runtime Resolution Had to Go

How Aidbox moved canonical resolution from runtime to configuration time — with pinning, tree-shaking, and a deterministic candidate selection algorithm.

FHIR Standard Aidbox Infrastructure
Evgeny Mukha

Evgeny Mukha

Apr 3, 2026
6 min read
$purge: Permanently Erase Patient Data with a Single FHIR Call

Aidbox 2602 implements the FHIR R6 $purge operation — permanently delete a patient and their entire compartment, including all history, in one auditable call.

FHIR Standard Aidbox Compliance
Evgeny Mukha

Evgeny Mukha

Mar 24, 2026
14 min read
Unbound Bindings

How FHIR R5 additional bindings solve the limitations of the classic one-binding-per-element model with layered terminology constraints.

FHIR Standard FHIR Profiling Terminology
Nikolai Ryzhikov

Nikolai Ryzhikov

Mar 20, 2026
8 min read
FHIR Validation: Recurse or Not Recurse

Should FHIR profile constraints apply recursively to nested elements? The spec says yes, but real-world profiles break. We dug into this while building the Aidbox validator.

FHIR Profiling FHIR Standard FHIR Tools Validation Conformance
Evgeny Mukha

Evgeny Mukha

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