Data privacy, locality, governance and compliance are huge issues in healthcare, and that's why we at Medplum support self-hosting. For those running on AWS, we use Aurora RDS, which supports auto-scaling. A common question we get is - how big is my database going to be?
In January 2024, the United States Regulators Steering Committee (USRSC) made a significant decision regarding the future of FHIR implementation in the U.S. They announced that the next version of US Core will be based on FHIR R6, effectively signaling a strategic move to bypass R5.
As a result, Medplum's R5 development efforts are currently paused. We remain focused on aligning with US Core and USCDI, which are built on FHIR R4, and will continue to monitor the progress of FHIR R6.
We are excited to hear about the release of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources FHIR R5, the latest version of the healthcare data interoperability standard. This new version builds on the previous versions of FHIR and incorporates new features and improvements to further support healthcare data exchange and interoperability.
Patient deduplication is a tough problem, and there are many approaches to implementing a deduplication program. We provide this guide and sample code as a resource to teams who want to run a continuous deduplication program that is powered by automation and highly auditable.
Great workflow apps are core for us at Medplum, and we provide tools to build highly ergonomic asynchronous task tracking systems providers. Some examples of task management apps in the medical context are apps that:
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As we close out 2022, the Medplum team would love to thank our customers and community for joining us on this journey.
Composability is the ability of different components or systems to be combined and work together seamlessly. This allows developers to build on existing open source software to create new applications and solutions that meet their specific needs.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) certification is a program that ensures that electronic health records (EHRs) meet certain standards for interoperability and security. It is designed to help healthcare providers adopt and use EHRs more effectively, and to promote the widespread adoption of EHRs as a means of improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare. To be certified, an EHR must meet a set of standards and criteria that have been developed by the ONC in collaboration with other organizations and stakeholders in the healthcare industry. These standards cover a range of areas, including the exchange of health information(g10), patient access to their own health data (also g10), and the protection of sensitive health information(d1,d13,g12). By achieving ONC certification, EHRs can demonstrate that they meet these standards and are ready for use in a wide variety of healthcare settings.
When working with customers to set up their apps and workflow we commonly get this request:
We need to track this extra data, but there is no field for it in the FHIR object. What should we do?