18 posts tagged with "fhir-datastore"

As we close out 2024, the Medplum team would love to thank our community and customers for joining us on this journey.

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.

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 Since v12 is rather outdated and nearing the end of its standard support window on RDS, it was time to plan our upgrade to the newest version available on RDS, v16.4.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, 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.

Claims data is a uniquely rich source of financial and clinical data important to many healthcare workflows. The EDI 837 Health Care Claim transaction is one of the oldest forms of electronic data exchange, stemming from being defined as a required data transmission specification by HIPAA.

Develo has built a full-featured EHR and customer relationship management (CRM) for pediatrics, encompassing core scheduling, clinical, and billing workflows along with family engagement capabilities.

As we close out 2023, the Medplum team would love to thank our customers and community for joining us on this journey.

One of the most frequent questions we get from our users is whether they should use Medplum's REST or GraphQL APIs. Both have a FHIR specification, but they offer different tradeoffs for different use cases.

The Medplum team is pleased to announce that we have certified the (b)(10) ONC Criteria - Electronic Health Information Export.

One of the main sources of confusion when starting an implementation is with FHIR system strings.

This field is ubiquitous across FHIR elements, but many developers who are new to healthcare don't understand its purpose or how to set it properly. They are used in even the most basic implementations, and even the sample data we provide for prototyping has many system identifiers.