Health Samurai Blog

FHIR R5's Patient/$merge is a start, but production MDM needs more. We built a resource-agnostic $merge with client-driven plans, atomic audit trails, and a generic $referencing operation.

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

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

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