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A federated approach to joining up data

May 26, 2026 by Rob Organ ARCHITECTURE
FHIR INTEGRATION STANDARDS PLATFORM
Recent work testing federated data sharing in an adult social care context has demonstrated how established NHS interoperability principles can be extended beyond traditional healthcare settings. Using a derivative of an existing NHS-owned platform and working collaboratively with digital social care record suppliers, this approach has shown how data can be discovered, accessed, and combined across organisational boundaries in practice. While joining up data across health and care remains challenging due to fragmentation and differing ownership, data federation offers a scalable alternative to centralised repositories and point‑to‑point integrations, enabling data to remain with providers while being accessed through a unified interface as if it were a single dataset.

FHIR StructureMaps: Enabling Bi‑Directional Data Transformation

May 11, 2026 by Rob Organ ENGINEERING
FHIR INTEGRATION STANDARDS
Healthcare interoperability often sounds straightforward—move data reliably between systems—but real‑world integration is far more complex, with differing models, semantics, and concepts. In a recent project, we faced this challenge in a sector with no existing interoperability standard, relying instead on a widely adopted operational dataset as our domain model. To bridge the gap with FHIR, we used StructureMaps and the $transform operation, enabling clean, scalable, bi‑directional mapping. This allowed us to deliver a robust transformation layer without building yet another bespoke engine.

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