A new video featuring Mate Varga, CTO of Patients Know Best, and Nikolai Ryzhikov, CTO of Health Samurai, is now available. The video explains how FHIR is enabling patients in the UK to access and manage their own health records more easily.
Patients Know Best operates the largest FHIR-based Personal Health Record system, linking general practitioners, hospitals, and the NHS App. This system processes tens of millions of test results and clinical records every month.
The video highlights how more than 5 million patients can securely view their health information, share it with doctors and carers, and add data themselves. This helps healthcare professionals get a clearer and more complete picture of each patient’s health.
By giving patients control over their records, the system supports better self-care and reduces pressure on healthcare services.
This collaboration project was presented as part of DevDays 2025, the world’s largest FHIR-only event organized by Firely in partnership with HL7 International. DevDays 2025 took place in Amsterdam from June 3-6, bringing together healthcare IT professionals from around the globe to share knowledge and real-world FHIR implementations.
Watch the video and learn more about this patient-focused approach.
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About Patients Know Best
Patients Know Best is the World’s largest Personal Health Record (PHR) and patient engagement platform, integrating data feeds from over 550 health organisations and providers. The system connects information from GPs, hospitals, social and mental health care providers, to create a single, unified copy of patient data. Everything from appointments and letters to test results, care plans, real-time monitoring data and discharge summaries, as well as the patient’s own data, are all available in one patient record, enabling patients and healthcare professionals to access up-to-date health information anytime, anywhere. In the UK, the platform serves around 4.7 million patients, registering 100,000+ patients and releasing over 20 million test results a month. PKB integrates with the NHS App to provide a single front door for patients to access their information.
About Health Samurai
Health Samurai helps healthcare providers, health plans, IT vendors, and digital health startups develop FHIR-native solutions on top of the Aidbox FHIR Platform. Since 2012, Aidbox has become a solid backbone for 100+ solutions: specialty EHRs, care coordination systems, telemedicine solutions, CDRs, and data analytics platforms worldwide.
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HospitalonFHIR - FHIR Camp 2024 – Cascais/Lisbon 🌟 It was a great attending the FHIR Camp 2024, surrounded by passionate professionals and inspiring leaders in the healthcare interoperability space. It was truly an honor to learn from references like Grahame Grieve (and many more), alongside dedicated enthusiasts, all committed to advancing HL7 FHIR standards and fostering better healthcare systems worldwide.
Membro do conselho na E-Mais - Movimento Associação dos Sistemas de Informação Em Saúde
Had an amazing experience at the FHIR Camp 2024 organized by Health Samurai | Aidbox FHIR® Platform. Inspired by its transformative potential, I look forward to working further in FHIR and hope to see its implementation in Nepal's healthcare system as well.
Though a bit delayed but still I don’t want to miss out on talking about the recently concluded #FHIRCamp2024 organized by Health Samurai | Aidbox FHIR® Platform in the beautiful city of Cascais, Portugal.
Healthcare & Life-Sciences Consulting | HL7 FHIR® Expert | Digital Transformation Leader
I skipped a lot of recent conferences to prioritize attending FHIR Camp 2024 in Portugal the week before last. It was well worth the trip! It was great to hear Grahame Grieve give the background story on how FHIR came to be an open source effort. The open source angle is really important and unique in that it will require a lot of meaningful collaboration and perhaps unprecedented transparency (things we're not great at in the US) to advance these standards in the coming years. There is and will be a lot of opportunity for people to develop and offer FHIR expertise.
It was a pleasure to come to the #FHIR #camp in Cascais as a Hospitals on FHIR ambassador It was a pleasure to exchange our outlook on FHIR #versionning and how to deal with the multiple versions with Grahame Grieve, Lloyd McKenzie, Gino Canessa, Ewout Kramer and Nikolai Ryzhikov I also had the occasion to present the state of FHIR in #France and the work our community is doing to increase adoption And of course, always a pleasure to exchange with friends of the HL7 community.
FHIR interoperability expert and architect. CEO of Fyrstain. Hospitals On FHIR ambassador.
FHIR CAMP 2024 in Cascais, Portugal, was filled with excitement and activity. Here are some highlights that I'd love to share. This experience reflected the event's opening message: to connect systems and technologies, we must first connect with each other. It was an incredible day, and I can't wait to see what's next!
I'm back from the fantastic experience that was #FHIR Camp 2024 in Cascais, Portugal! I was grateful to reconnect with many of my long-time collaborators and also many new people that bring interesting perspectives that enhance our collective work. I really liked the format - I think it was very conducive to free-flowing conversation about new ideas and approaches. Thank you very much to Nikolai Ryzhikov, Pavel Smirnov and all of Health Samurai | Aidbox FHIR® Platform for the opportunity and the amazing support. I think the event was a great success!
I had the privilege of attending the FHIR® Camp 2024 🔥 in the beautiful Cascais, Lisbon 🇵🇹 hosted by Health Samurai | Aidbox FHIR® Platform The event brought together some of the brightest minds in the #HL7 #FHIR space, including industry pioneers like Grahame Grieve, Gino Canessa, Lloyd McKenzie, and many others! The sessions were not only inspiring but also directly relevant to the work we do at IgniteData.
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