Large Patient Charts
· 3 min read
There's a piece of conventional wisdom in health tech that won't die: FHIR is fine for interoperability, but too slow and bloated for real-time clinical apps.
The skepticism isn't unreasonable. FHIR resources can be verbose, real charts are messy, and clinical workflows don't forgive much. A physician who opens a chart and watches a spinner for five seconds has already been let down by the architecture.