Healthcare Standards

In Partial Rejection and Levels of Validity in CDA (or anything else for that matter)  I discussed levels of validation of CDA content.  No...

As an implementer these days, I don't have the luxury of building one-off solutions.  I have to be able to take components and put th...

I've been spending a great deal of time on the implementation side, which doesn't let me say much here.  However, I had a recent ...

Patient matching is a tricky area.  Name, birth date and gender are insufficient in a region to match a patient sufficiently for all patient...

One of the things that I learned in my Informatics education was that there were many different ways to evaluate validity of something.  It...

There are many times when you aren't quite ready to adopt a new release, either because it isn't fully baked yet (as for FHIR STU3)...

I've looked at a lot of EHR database schema over my career.  One of the things that I've found about FHIR is that it captures the e...