Author: Hisham_Eng
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De-Mystifying Healthcare Apps: A “SMART on FHIR” Starter Kit for Developers
By Hisham Alrashdan Building a healthcare app is not like building a standard web app. You cannot just “login with email” and query a database. You must handle strictly regulated patient data, integrate with massive Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems (like Epic or Cerner), and strictly follow security protocols. This high barrier to entry discourages…
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Bridging the Healthcare Divide: Building an HL7-to-FHIR Transformation Pipeline with Mirth Connect & Node.js
By Hisham Hussein Alrashdan In the world of healthcare technology, we are often caught between two eras. On one side, we have legacy Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems speaking HL7 v2.5—a pipe-delimited text standard from the 1980s. On the other, we have modern cloud platforms, analytics tools, and mobile apps expecting FHIR R4—a robust, RESTful…