Health IT and software craftsman.
What’s New More than a few useful bits have snuck into v2: the latest being environment profiles, IDE support for FHIR Group subject evaluation, a redesigned Settings area, and an application-wide UI refresh. If you use the evergreen HL7 Foundry download, you’ll get the new features automatically the next time you pull updates. Please submit your great […]
I’m pleased to announce CQL Studio 2.0, the next step in the suite’s roadmap for authoring, executing, and testing Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and FHIR-based artifacts. The focus of the 2.0.x series is terminology search and import for immediate usage in your CQL artifacts. The headline addition is direct integration with the U.S. Value Set […]
If you work with Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and FHIR, a preintegrated bundle of CQL Studio for local use is now publicly available. https://cqlstudio.com CQL Studio is an integrated suite for authoring, executing, and publishing standards-based FHIR and CQL artifacts, as well as testing CQL engine implementations. By deploying locally or in your own protected […]
I’m pleased to announce the public release of Stakeout v4 as fully open source software under the Apache 2.0 license. Stakeout is a simple, self-hosted application for HTTP(S) availability monitoring and automatic web screenshots. If you’re looking for Nagios, use Nagios — Stakeout is deliberately minimal and answers “Is everything up!?” in a concise and […]
CQL is becoming the standard language for expressing clinical logic across multiple healthcare domains: Despite CQL’s growing importance, developers have been forced to use basic text editors and command-line tools. My aim for CQL Studio is to become the de facto open source development suite for all CQL-based artifact development. 😃 Vision for a Comprehensive […]
Since announcing CQL Tests UI, the application has continued to receive enhancements that add the ability to execute new test runs yourself using the official CQFramework-family of CQL tests. What’s New: The Runner Integration The upcoming release introduces a complete CQL Test Runner integration that will allow users to execute CQL compliance tests directly from the web interface. […]
I’m pleased to announce the release of CQL Tests UI, a web application for viewing and analyzing Clinical Quality Language (CQL) engine test results generated by the CQL Tests Runner. I’ve contributed CQL Tests UI to the cqframework family of tools under the Apache 2.0 license following debut at the September, 2025 HL7 Connectathon. What is CQL Tests UI? […]
As part of my work at Arizona State University, I’ve been developing the technology stack for the Substance Use Health Records Sharing (SHARES) program. This initiative aims to transform how sensitive health data for substance use disorders (SUD) are managed and shared across healthcare systems. At a personal technical level, my goal is to provide […]
I was pleasantly surprised to hear that GovCIO quoted one of my recent presentations in a short article on H7 FHIR Foundry: https://govciomedia.com/hl7s-fhir-foundry-speeds-up-health-data-standards-adoption/ With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pushing for the adoption of FHIR APIs to streamline healthcare data exchange and support value-based care, HL7 and the FHIR Foundry…
The HL7 Knowledge Artifact specification has been an experiment in portable clinical decision support (CDS). While unlikely to see production adoption due to equivalent concepts now in FHIR, it is nevertheless useful to see a standards-based representation of clinical knowledge in a working UI. I am updating the 2017 release of the KNARTwork Community Knowledge […]