Building a FHIR-Compliant ADT Database: Encounters, Polymorphism, and Facades

Building a FHIR-Compliant ADT Database: Encounters, Polymorphism, and Facades If you are a software engineer building a healthcare application today, you're inevitably going to cross paths with HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). FHIR is fantastic as a standardized API format for exchanging healthcare data. But when it comes time to actually store that data in a traditional relational database (SQL), things get complicated fast. Today, we're going to look at how to design a da