FHIR Search Performance Across 4 Servers: A First Look at the Numbers
FHIR search is where most production payer workloads actually live. Patient Access calls, panel queries, analytics extracts, and prior-auth bundle…
Author: Alessandro Ricci
Payer-side FHIR architect in Newport Beach. Writes about Da Vinci IG adoption and payer platform engineering.
Top 5 Risk Adjustment Patterns Using FHIR Clinical Data
Risk adjustment is the financial mechanism that compensates Medicare Advantage and ACA marketplace payers for the clinical risk in their…
Top 5 FHIR-Based Stars Rating Measurement Patterns for 2026
CMS Stars ratings drive Medicare Advantage bonuses, market positioning, and member growth. The measures depend on clinical and administrative data…
Top 5 Claims Analytics Modernization Patterns Using FHIR
Claims analytics at US health payers has decades of accumulated infrastructure. Data warehouses built years ago. Custom claim line fact…
STU 2.0.0 vs STU 2.0.1: How Da Vinci IG Versions Differ in Production
Da Vinci IG versioning looks subtle on the surface. STU 2.0.0 versus STU 2.0.1 sounds like a minor patch. In…
Da Vinci CRD vs PDex: Which IG Drives Which Workflow
Coverage Requirements Discovery (CRD) and Payer Data Exchange (PDex) are two Da Vinci IGs that sometimes get confused in early…
Best Multi-Tenant FHIR Hosting Models for Payer Workloads in 2026
Multi-tenant FHIR hosting matters for any health plan that supports multiple lines of business, multiple delegated entities, or multiple regulatory…
5 Patterns for Using FHIR Data to Train Payer LLM Applications
LLM applications at US health payers are growing in 2026. Care management note summarization. Prior auth narrative generation. Member service…
Zooming into the Future of Healthcare with FHIR Adoption
Ever wonder how hospitals manage to keep track of everything? I mean, patient records, lab results, appointments… it’s a lot.…
Simplifying Patient Care - How Digital Forms for Healthcare are Revolutionizing Efficiency
Have you ever spent what felt like an eternity filling out the same information on countless paper forms at the…