Interoperability Standards & Patterns

Technical guides for HL7, CDA, and healthcare data exchange standards

Section
interop
Type
pattern
Audience
technical
Semantic

Medication Data Exchange

Reference guide to FHIR medication resources — MedicationRequest, MedicationDispense, MedicationAdministration, MedicationStatement — with coding, dosage, and reconciliation patterns.

Section
interop
Type
pattern
Audience
technical
Organizational

Prior Authorization Workflow

End-to-end guide to electronic prior authorization using the Da Vinci CRD, DTR, and PAS IGs: what each step does, what provider and payer systems must implement, and CMS-0057-F compliance obligations.

Section
interop
Type
pattern
Audience
technical
Organizational

CDex — Clinical Data Exchange

End-to-end reference for the Da Vinci CDex IG: direct query, Task-based, and attachment exchange patterns; use cases for claims adjudication, prior authorization, and audit; Task workflow mechanics; and SMART Backend Services authentication.

Section
interop
Type
standard
Audience
technical
Semantic

Healthcare Data Semantics

Clinical vocabulary reference for integrators: SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, ICD-10, CPT — what each system is, when to use it, and how to approach semantic mapping.

Section
interop
Type
comparison
Audience
technical
Structural

Healthcare Standards Primer

Practical reference for integrators on HL7 v2, CDA/C-CDA, FHIR, X12, and DICOM — what each standard is, how to recognise it, and when to use which.

Section
interop
Type
pattern
Audience
technical
Foundational

Healthcare Interoperability: Landscape and Approach

Overview of healthcare interoperability challenges, standards landscape, integration patterns, and how to choose the right approach for your use case.

Section
interop
Type
pattern
Audience
technical
Semantic

Legacy-to-FHIR Mapping

Reference for mapping legacy healthcare data models to FHIR resources, including 1:1, 1:many, and many:1 patterns and documentation expectations.

Section
interop
Type
pattern
Audience
technical
Structural

Patient Identity Matching

Reference guide to deterministic and probabilistic patient matching, MPI architecture, the FHIR $match operation, and deduplication strategy for integrators.

Section
interop
Type
pattern
Audience
technical
Semantic

Clinical Data Mapping

Clinical-specific FHIR mapping reference for Observation, Condition, and Procedure resources — coding decisions, category traps, and anti-patterns unique to clinical data.