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Medplum 2025 Roadmap

· 2 min read
Cody Ebberson
Medplum Core Team

As we kick off 2025, we're excited to share Medplum's vision for the year ahead. Our open-source healthcare development platform has seen extraordinary growth, with our community of builders and innovators expanding rapidly throughout 2024:

FHIR Workflow Patterns to Simplify Your Life

· 8 min read
Rahul Agarwal
Medplum Core Team

If you've worked with FHIR before, you've probably noticed there are a lot of resources. And I mean a lot! At first glance, it might seem overwhelming to figure out how they all fit together. But here's the thing: once you understand a few core patterns, the whole system starts to make much more sense.

Today, let's talk about one of FHIR's clever organizational tricks: the Workflow module. It's an pattern overlaid onto resource types that helps unlock how different healthcare activities relate to each other. Whether you're building a scheduling system, managing prescriptions, or handling lab orders, these patterns will come in handy.

Achieving a zero-downtime Postgres major version upgrade

· 14 min read
Matt Long
Medplum Core Team

Medplum is built on Postgres. Until recently, our hosted Medplum service was using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) RDS Aurora Postgres cluster running version 12.16. Since v12 is rather outdated and nearing the end of its standard support window on RDS, it was time to plan our upgrade to the newest version available on RDS, v16.4. Various methods to upgrade to a new major version on various places across the downtime vs level-of-effort continuum; we decided to upgrade our database with no downtime. This is how we did it.

Chamber Cardio - case study

· 6 min read
Andrew Dilling
Head of Product, Chamber Cardio

Chamber Cardio, a technology-enabled cardiology solution, helps enable and empower cardiologists and practices in their transition to value-based care. With our cloud-based technology platform, we offer a suite of tools designed specifically for cardiovascular care. These tools provide real-time insights, analytics and care coordination tools focused on improving outcomes for patients with chronic cardiovascular conditions.