Designing a FHIR Client That Survives the Tricky Verbs
The FHIR REST client that survives production is the one built around the tricky verbs,…
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HTTP Status Codes FHIR Reuses vs Redefines
A FHIR server returns HTTP status codes that mostly mean what they mean in vanilla…
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Bundle Transactions vs Batch: The Atomicity Boundary
Two Bundles walk into a server. One is a transaction, one is a batch. They…
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PATCH Support in FHIR: What Actually Works Cross-Implementation
PATCH is the FHIR verb with the widest gap between what the spec says and…
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GET vs POST Search in FHIR: When to Switch and Why
Every FHIR client that only ever does GET search will hit the URL-length limit eventually.…
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Conditional Update: Preventing Lost Writes Without Pessimistic Locking
A nurse and a doctor open the same Patient record at nine minutes past. They…
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Conditional Read: If-None-Match and the Caching Wins It Enables
Every FHIR client that polls a resource is a client that will benefit from conditional…
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The FHIR REST Verbs That Actually Differ From Vanilla REST
Every FHIR client team eventually has the same meeting. Someone says "REST is REST, we…