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Free FHIR Tools to Use

Discover top free FHIR tools that simplify integration without the cost. From building medical forms to validating FHIRPath, these tools help developers and healthcare teams boost data exchange - totally free!

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Aidbox Subscriptions: A comprehensive overview of data integration, challenges, and solutions

Learn how subscriptions simplify data management with automated, event-driven workflows. They improve care coordination, decision-making, and streamline processes like data syncing and automation. Plus, Aidbox offers reliable, scalable solutions for both simple and high-load systems.

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How to resolve FHIR SearchParameters conflicting codes

What is SearchParameter’s code? Which SearchParameters are available in the FHIR Server? Is it possible to have a clash of two different SearchParameters having the same code? How should this clash be resolved according to the FHIR specification? What to do in such situations in Aidbox?

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What Additional Benefits Do Electronic Forms Offer, and Why Shouldn't They Be Confused with Reports?

Discover the additional benefits electronic forms bring to medical workflows, and why they should be distinct from reports. In this article, I walk through creating a Wound Assessment form, showcasing how features like repeatable sections, image attachments, and conditional logic make electronic for

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How to create custom resources in your FHIR server?

The FHIR R5 specification includes 157 resources, from common ones like Patient to specialized ones. But when your data doesn't fit any existing resource, you may need to create a custom type. This article explores 3 ways to create custom FHIR resources and weighs their pros and cons.

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SQL on FHIR: What is a ViewDefinition, and how does it work?

Discover how to flatten complex healthcare data using ViewDefinition resource. Dive into our article for tips and examples.

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How to build matrix-based medical forms in record time: Video Tutorial

Learn how to create efficient, user-friendly matrix forms using the Aidbox Public Form Builder. See real-world examples like PHQ-2/PHQ-9 and GAD-7 in action.

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Navigating the FHIR Terminology Data: Insights and Challenges

We focused on the FHIR IG Registry as it offers a comprehensive dataset. By doing this, we aimed to identify the most pressing issues, challenges, and use cases we were likely to encounter.

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4 ways to upload IGs to Aidbox: Pros and Cons

Explore all 4 possible ways to configure IGs in the Aidbox FHIR Platform. Dive into what, how, and why each method can fit your needs.

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Create your component library and assemble forms like a Lego

Working with IT engineers, I've noticed a common trait: when faced with routine tasks, they seek ways to avoid them by creating libraries for reusing written code. Routine work consumes time and is prone to errors.

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Topic-based Subscriptions: Top 5 use cases for digital health

Get up close with FHIR subscriptions, learn where and how you can apply them in the real world to maximize the benefits. Plus, there's a bonus at the end, so keep reading!

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A practical guide for extending EMR capabilities with SMART on FHIR applications

Learn How FHIR and SMART Are Transforming EMR Integration in Healthcare. Dive into practical insights from Beda Software's CTO, Ilya Beda, on extending EMR solutions efficiently.

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SQL on FHIR: An Inside Look at Benefits and Opportunities

What is SQL on FHIR and why is it perfect for working with large amounts of FHIR data? Capability to perform complex queries, such as join, filter, sort, and aggregate data, are among the many benefits it brings to digital health developers and data engineers.

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Automate tasks with Aidbox’s Workflow Engine

Patient admissions, order management, medication reconciliation, care coordination are quite repeatable steps. Once you automate it, you get a lot of valuable time back to focus on more important tasks.

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How to design a multi-tenant FHIR API for an existing EHR system

Explore ways of cutting design costs using a multi-tenant FHIR API with SMART on FHIR support and comply with the 21st Century Cures Act for EHR systems on the fly.

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Master Patient Index and Record Linkage

How to keep patient records consistent and complete

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HIPAA-compliant Aidbox instance synchronization

Do you have offices or clinics all over the world and want to collect statistical data in a single storage? In this article, we'll share our experiences in implementing HIPAA-compliant data synchronization across multiple Aidbox instances.

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Top communities in digital health

How to stay ahead of digital health trends? Tech leaders and engineers often have concerns about HL7 FHIR, integrations, systems design, etc. These topics raise a tonne of questions that even Google can’t answer in depth. But professional communities can!

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CMS compliance implementation

Are you facing the necessity of becoming CMS compliant? In this article, I would like to tell you about our experience making a US health plan’s legacy medical system CMS compliant.

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Getting started with HL7 messaging over MLLP using a VPN

Sharing our experience: How to securely transport an HL7 message using the MLLP protocol and effectively resolve connectivity issues.

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First steps to get your FHIR-based solution ready for production

Basic tips for building high-availability FHIR systems in a cloud infrastructure. Here, you will learn how to develop a production-ready and reliable FHIR solution in the cloud.

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Aidbox FHIR API is certified by ICSA Labs | 170.315(g)(10) criteria

Great news for EHR vendors! We are happy to announce that the Aidbox FHIR API module is officially certified for 170.315(g)(10) criteria by ICSA Labs. This means that you can enrich your existing EHR with it, get compliance automatically and strengthen your solution with a pluggable FHIR API.

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Silver bullet DIY: Aidbox and MatrixCare EHR integration

There is no silver bullet for establishing a working ETL pipeline for transmitting an HL7v2 feed from EHR into FHIR data out of the box. MatrixCare EHR is not an exclusion. In this article, we are going to give examples of how we managed to ease the pain of integration and which instruments we used.

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How to load 1 billion FHIR resources into Aidbox in 5 hours

Big data usually means big problems and a lot of work. One of the problems is how to load a lot of data. There is usually some source of big data, and the problem is posed as some kind of legacy system migration or migration of historical data into an FHIR server.

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Standardized API for EHRs | Cheat Sheet - §170.315(g)(10)

Hey! Good news – Aidbox is in the process of being ONC certified for §170.315(g)(10). In the process of preparing for certification, we systematized the information and have decided to share our handy cheat sheet (PDF) with you.

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Bringing data from wearables and medical IoT devices to FHIR solutions

This post demonstrates how to effectively integrate data produced by medical devices into the FHIR solution based on the Aidbox FHIR platform. Here you will find the FHIR model, a guide on how to adjust the Aidbox platform, and a link to the open-source project that illustrates this concept.

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21st Century Cures Act

On May, 1st of 2020 ONC has published the final rule called “21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program” to further boost interoperability among provider organizations and EHR ...

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Aidbox HIPAA book / Part 1 / Technical safeguards

Spoiler alert: HIPAA is easy when you are using Aidbox. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets standards in the United States for protecting individually identifiable health information.

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A quick guide how to enable 2FA for Aidbox-based solutions.

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a subset of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and an important security measure that adds a second layer of protection to your healthcare app. Read our guide and enable 2FA for Aidbox-based solutions.

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The 2020 X-mas Hackathon

Launched 5 years ago for the first time, The X-mas Hackathon is a two-day event that brings healthcare enthusiasts together to build solutions that tackle a wide variety of problems.

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A quick guide to telemedicine software alternatives for medical providers

How can we successfully implement a telemedicine solution and then use it? To make an accurate choice, let’s examine the main merits and demerits of several telemedicine options.

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About FHIR facades (part I) - two approaches

There are many reasons to let your software solution speak to others. Between interacting with other applications and extending your solution with new modules ...

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Two-phase FHIR terminology

Terminology in Health IT is a very important and complicated aspect. A lot of interoperability depends on how accurately do you encode your data.

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First Fhirbase Release

Health Samurai team is proud to announce the first stable release of Fhirbase, an open-source tool to store and manage FHIR data in PostgreSQL relational database.

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FHIR Storage and Analytics in Baltimore

If you are interested in FHIR databases and analytics on FHIR and going to be not far from Baltimore September 29–30 — please join us at the FHIR Connectathon 19 and brand new Storage and Analytics track!

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SQL on FHIR

Last week Ryan Brush (author of Bunsen project) from Cerner published on Github the first version of the SQL-on-FHIR draft. This will be a hot topic to discuss in the upcoming FHIR Connectathon #19.

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Should you use FHIR resources as your data storage format?

Using FHIR for data persistence is becoming a popular topic of discussion in the community. Our CTO shares his thoughts on when and why you would use FHIR as the storage format for your healthcare data.

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The FHIR Guide for CTOs and technical leaders

Our CTO provides a brief technical overview of the HL7 FHIR Standard, from analysis of HL7 FHIR healthcare informational data model to potential use cases using FHIR APIs and potential limitations you should be aware of when planning to develop using FHIR standard.

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FHIR and Machine Learning (ML)

Machine learning is getting adoption in healthcare because of the more sophisticated technological solutions that generate a tremendous amount of clinical data. To address this problem FHIR community developed many solutions which we discuss in this post.

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Announcing FHIRbase Dojo

We're launching the FHIRbase Dojo, a blog dedicated to sharing the knowledge about practical applications of FHIR standard in the development of modern clinical data storage and analytics applicaitons.

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FHIR Starter 2018: Recap of the first FHIR conference in Eastern Europe

The detailed recap of the first FHIR conference in Eastern Europe, which took place during the summer of 2018. One of the highlights of the conference was the appearance by Grahame Grieve with his lectures about the history of the FHIR standard and the importance of nurturing international HL7 FHIR

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Using FHIR to Simplify Healthcare Application Development

FHIR standard simplifies the development process with out of the box healthcare data models, RESTful APIs and robust guidelines for integration with legacy healthcare data standards such as HL7 V2, CCD, and others.

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FHIR: What's great, what isn't so good, and what it's not built to do

Is FHIR U+1F525 the right choice for your healthcare data needs? Find out its pros, cons, and limitations. Dive into our analysis! In this post, we share the advantages of incorporating the FHIR standard in your health IT project and strategies to overcome the potential shortcomings effectively.

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Moving Cardiovascular Disease Detection to the Cloud

We helped HeartSmart develop a machine learning platform that helps with cardiovascular disease detection by processing clinical data in the cloud. This post explains how the new healthcare technology is changing provider workflows, lowering costs, and improving care delivery efficiency.

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FHIR Success Story: Narus Health Connects Patients, Families and Providers

Digital health company Narus Health build two FHIR applications - a cloud electronic health record and a mobile application - to support employee health. Storing their healthcare data in a backend FHIR server and building with FHIR APIs significantly cut costs and time to market.

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Thoughts on the Duke University FHIR Applications Roundtable

We presented our Aidbox FHIR backend at the Duke University FHIR Applications Roundtable and explained how using a FHIR server and FHIR APIs to handle healthcare data simplifies development of modern health applications. The event featured speakers who shared their FHIR implementations.

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Choosing Access Control Model for a Generic FHIR Server

Making sure your healthcare data is secure is a top priority for any health information system. Here’s what you should think about when managing access control for your FHIR server.

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Implementing FHIR in Dynamic Languages

The FHIR standard is becoming the de facto way to manage healthcare data. Our CTO explains why FHIR implementations with dynamic languages could provide valuable feedback to the FHIR standard and FHIR community.

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Choosing FHIR for Laboratory Integration

Deciding between which healthcare data standard to use can be hard. We evaluated whether HL7 v2, v3 & CDA, or FHIR is the best choice for a laboratory integration project. We found FHIR is the best choice because the FHIR API perfectly compliments the custom API of the laboratory system.

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Thoughts About Microservices

Many people are talking about microservies as the preferred approach to structure complex health information systems. But there are overlooked consequences to using microservices over monolithic architectures.

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Meaningful Use Stage 3: ONC-certified API for your health care application

The new ONC Health IT Certification Program is about having electronic health records open up clinical data to third party applications with APIs. The new FHIR standard can enable access to healthcare data with RESTful FHIR APIs.

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Transforming Healthcare IT

The HL7 FHIR standard has great potential to change how we handle healthcare data and the industry approach to health informatics. FHIR can help electronic health records and legacy health systems move away from monolithic architectures to becoming open platforms.

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Start a Health IT project with the FHIR standard at your organization

Electronic health records systems have been great at capturing healthcare data, but remain difficult and expensive to customize. The new FHIR standard gives us ways to quickly build flexible, modern health systems at low costs with FHIR servers, FHIR APIs, and FHIR development tools.

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How do we build the best Convenient Healthcare Clinics?

Convenient care clinics are becoming a popular way of increasing patient engagement and satisfaction. Our CEO did some personal research on the best ways to design and develop a healthcare information system for Walmart clinics.

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Accelerating Healthcare Innovation with HL7 FHIR

Digital health innovation drives patient engagement, lowers costs and improves the quality of care. Having a team of FHIR experts who understand electronic health records systems and know how to manage healthcare data the right way will help open the doors to innovation at your organization.

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