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HL7v2 to FHIR Migration: A Practical Engineering Guide
A hands-on HL7v2 to FHIR R4 migration reference: segment-to-resource mapping tables, the cutover process, terminology and identity gotchas, and tooling.
CDS Hooks: What Nobody Tells You Before You Build
CDS Hooks promises real-time clinical decision support inside EHRs. The reality of building a working implementation is far more complicated. Here are the 10 things we wish we knew before shipping our first CDS integration.
An Engineer's Guide to HIPAA Consent and 42 CFR Part 2
HIPAA consent and 42 CFR Part 2 govern how patient health information can be used and shared — and the engineering requirements they create go well beyond a checkbox in a form. Here is what you actually need to build.
FHIR Meets Graph Databases: Exploring Healthcare's Natural Network Structure
FHIR data is not tabular data with relationships bolted on — it is a graph. Every resource references other resources. When you import FHIR into a graph database, you are not imposing structure, you are revealing structure that was already there.
Healthcare Integration For Beginners: HL7v2
HL7v2 has been moving healthcare data since the 1980s and it is still running in 95% of US hospitals today. If you are new to healthcare engineering, this is the standard you will encounter first. Here is what you actually need to know.
5 Reasons to Solve for Adoption Before Building Your Digital Health Tool
The digital health startup graveyard is full of technically brilliant products that solved real clinical problems and still failed to get traction. The difference between products that scale and products that stall is almost never the technology. It is adoption strategy.
Medplum vs Legacy EHR Platforms: When to Make the Switch
Medplum offers developer teams a FHIR-native alternative to building on Epic, Cerner, or athenahealth. But it's not right for everyone. Here's an honest comparison to help you decide.
Healthcare Interoperability in 2026: TEFCA, FHIR, and What's Next
TEFCA is live, CMS interoperability rules are tightening, and payer-to-payer data exchange is finally real. Here's what healthcare technology leaders need to know about the interoperability landscape in 2026.
HIPAA Compliance for Engineers: What Actually Matters
Most HIPAA guidance is written for compliance officers, not engineers. Here's a technical guide to the controls that actually matter: encryption, access logging, BAAs, and the audit trail patterns that survive OCR investigations.
5 Hard Lessons from Building Epic FHIR Integrations
Epic's FHIR APIs are powerful but full of undocumented quirks. After building integrations across multiple health systems, here are the five lessons that would have saved us months.
The Complete FHIR Integration Guide for Digital Health Teams (2025)
FHIR R4 has become the foundation of every serious digital health integration, but most teams still stumble on the same avoidable mistakes. This guide covers the resource types that actually matter, SMART on FHIR auth patterns, and the pitfalls that kill timelines.