Best MPI Tools for Hospital Systems in 2026
Hospital systems put MPI tools under a different kind of pressure than smaller clinical deployments. The patient population is large,…
Author: Sarah Mitchell
Health informatics writer based in Austin. Covers FHIR adoption in mid-sized hospital systems and the practical messes that come with it.
Top 7 Patient Matching Algorithms for Healthcare IT
Patient matching is the part of healthcare data infrastructure that most teams assume is solved and most teams quietly struggle…
Reading FHIR Validation Output Like a Checklist, Not a Wall of Text
There is a moment in FHIR integration work where a validator dumps forty issues in your lap and the whole…
When a Bundle Passes Locally but the Receiver Still Rejects It
There is a specific flavor of frustration in FHIR integration work: your Bundle passes every validator you can find, your…
Bundle Validation in CI: Catching Bad Payloads Before Production
The idea sounds obvious: run FHIR Bundle validation in continuous integration, and stop bad payloads from ever landing in a…
Batch vs Transaction Bundles: Why the Validation Rules Feel Different
FHIR Bundles come in a handful of types, but the two that most integration teams touch every day are batch…
5 Structural Mistakes We See in Real-World FHIR Bundles
After you have looked at enough Bundles, the same handful of structural mistakes start to feel familiar. They are not…
Structural Check vs Terminology Check in FHIR: Which One Comes First
FHIR validation is often talked about as one activity, but in practice it is two very different jobs stapled together.…
How to Read a FHIR Validation Error Without Getting Lost
The first time you paste a Bundle into a validator and stare at the response, the natural reaction is to…
What Really Breaks When You Skip FHIR Bundle Validation
Ever pushed a FHIR Bundle into production and watched half the entries silently vanish into the receiver's error log? The…