Analytics on FHIR®
2-day online conference
Spend a time learning about the new SQL on FHIR standard and how it unlocks real-world analytics use cases from industry leaders at HL7, Microsoft, Google, Health Samurai, CSIRO and more.
Learn about the SQL on FHIR standard and how it unlocks real-world analytics use cases from industry leaders at HL7, Google, Health Samurai, CSIRO and more.
Already know about SQL on FHIR? Discover the latest advancements including FHIR APIs, SQL "query objects", high-performance implementations, and innovative AI applications for FHIR Analytics at scale.
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About this event
Join the creators of the SQL on FHIR standard as they share their insights on how it enables a simple, efficient and powerful FHIR analytics ecosystem. Learn how this standards-based approach to transforming FHIR into tabular views helps with use cases such as EMR integration and allows organizations to leverage investments in relational database, analytics and business intelligence platforms.
This event offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of SQL on FHIR and connect with the industry leaders in FHIR analytics. Engage with the experts, ask questions, and explore real-world applications of this game-changing technology.
Meet the speakers
Arjun Sanyal
Head of Product
Reason Health / Vermonster
Arjun is a healthcare product and software leader at Reason Health / Vermonster where he's building a new platform for FHIR knowledge use cases. Prior to Reason Health, Arjun was Product Director for NCQA's information integrity portfolio, 1up Health's Director for FHIR Analytics, an engineering lead at Elation Health, and an engineer at the SMART Project at Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital where he authored the first SMART app.
Nikolai Ryzhikov
Chief Technology Officer
Health Samurai
Nikolai is a CTO at Health Samurai and technical leader of the Aidbox FHIR Platform with more than 15 years of experience in healthcare IT. Since 2012 has been actively contributing to the FHIR standard, and popular open-source projects like Fhirbase, FHIR.js. Author of the FHIR-first development approach and regular speaker of FHIR events.
Linkedin ->John Grimes
Principal Research Consultant
CSIRO
John is an engineer and researcher working at the intersection of standards and health data analytics at CSIRO, the Australian national science agency. He is the primary contributor to Pathling, a set of tools for using clinical terminology and FHIR with Apache Spark and a member of the FHIR Analytics collaborative and a key contributor to the SQL on FHIR project.
Linkedin ->Steve Munini
CEO and CTO
Helios Software
After leading technical teams at Intel, and a healthcare startup in Boston, I founded Helios Software, a healthcare product development company focusing on HL7® FHIR®. I now help Chief Medical Informatics Officers, Pathologists, Bioinformaticians and Hospital Executives transform their clinical data strategies, while empowering their engineers and analytics teams to build innovative solutions using FHIR.
Linkedin ->Dan Gottlieb
Principal, Data standards
Central Square Solutions
Dan Gottlieb is a clinical informaticist and software consultant with experience leading the design and development of healthcare apps and population health analytic tools for commercial and non-profit organizations. He serves as the senior technical advisor to the SMART on FHIR Project and a subject matter expert for the Argonaut FHIR Accelerator, and is the co-creator and maintainer of the FHIR population data API standard (“FHIR Bulk Data”) which has been deployed by organizations including CMS, Epic, Cerner, Microsoft and Google.
Linkedin ->Olim Saidov
Full Stack Engineer
Health Samurai
A full-stack developer and technology leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience building medical billing platforms, pharmaceutical lookup tools, blockchain-based remittance services, and road safety monitoring systems. Currently working on FHIR-compliant form solutions to improve healthcare data capture and interoperability. Experienced in delivering real-world solutions for healthcare providers, fintech startups, telecom operators, and public service platforms.
Linkedin ->Eugene Vestel
Founder
FHIR IQ
Eugene is the founder of FHIR IQ, a healthcare technology company delivering AI-powered data intelligence solutions tailored to the real-world challenges of digital health. We help health tech companies, payers, providers, and data aggregators transform chaotic healthcare data into streamlined, FHIR-native, analytics-ready pipelines that fuel interoperability, insights, and better outcomes.
Linkedin ->Bashir Sadjad
Software Engineer
Google
For the past 14 years, Bashir Sadjad has been a software engineer at Google. Over the past few years, his focus has been on healthcare systems in in low-resource environments and in particular the FHIR Info Gateway and FHIR Data Pipes components of Open Health Stack.
Linkedin ->Grahame Grieve
Principal
Health Intersections Pty Ltd
Grahame Grieve is HL7's Product Director for FHIR® - the leading healthcare data exchange standard of the future. Grahame has a background in laboratory medicine, software vendor development, clinical research, open source development and has also conceived, developed and sold interoperability and clinical document solutions and products in the Australian market and around the world.
Linkedin ->What to expect
Industry Experts
Engage with leading industry experts as they share their insights and experiences in leveraging SQL on FHIR to transform healthcare data management.
Ongoing Challenges
Explore the most recent challenges faced in implementing SQL on FHIR and learn strategies to effectively address these issues.
Use cases
Discover practical use cases that demonstrate the power of SQL on FHIR in real-world healthcare scenarios, showcasing its impact on data analysis and integration.
Best Practices & Solutions
Gain valuable knowledge on best practices and innovative solutions for optimizing the use of SQL on FHIR in your healthcare systems.
Industry Experts
Engage with leading industry experts as they share their insights and experiences in leveraging SQL on FHIR to transform healthcare data management.
Ongoing Challenges
Explore the most recent challenges faced in implementing SQL on FHIR and learn strategies to effectively address these issues.
Use cases
Discover practical use cases that demonstrate the power of SQL on FHIR in real-world healthcare scenarios, showcasing its impact on data analysis and integration.
Best Practices & Solutions
Gain valuable knowledge on best practices and innovative solutions for optimizing the use of SQL on FHIR in your healthcare systems.
Sessions
Introducing FHIR Analytics with SQL on FHIR
A high-level introduction to the FHIR Analytics Collaborative and the SQL on FHIR specification. Arjun will discuss the state of the FHIR Analytics ecosystem, why we created SQL on FHIR v2, how it can unlock key barriers to today's and next-generation use cases, and where the FHIR Analytics Collaborative is headed next.
SQL on FHIR v2.1: A Technical Tour & What's New for 2025
Nikolai, a lead author and implementer of SQL on FHIR, will give a deep dive into the technical details of the specification. This will include a close look at the heart of the spec, the ViewDefinition and present the enhancements for 2025: the FHIR APIs and Library-based Queries.
Validation of SQL on FHIR via Clinical Study Replicaiton & Introduction to Pathling
John will present findings from the recent SQL on FHIR paper published in npj Digital Medicine.
The paper documents the development and validation of a standard method for transforming FHIR data into tabular structures. John will examine the design principles behind the SQL on FHIR ViewDefinition, including the deliberate constraints that balance expressivity with implementation feasibility.
John will demonstrate how ViewDefintions were used to replicate a clinical study on racial disparities in oxygen therapy (based on the MIMIC-IV dataset) across multiple technology platforms, illustrating the portability of the approach.
He will also provide an update on recent developments in Pathling, including enhancements to its view runner implementation and integration with the broader SQL on FHIR ecosystem.
Helios Software: High-performance Clinical Analytics with SQL on FHIR using Rust
Helios Software is an open source Rust implementation of SQL on FHIR that includes a simple CLI for batch transformations, a HTTP server ideal for microservices, and Python bindings for using SQL on FHIR directly in your data science and analytics projects.
In this session, Steve will demonstrate a real-world laboratory analytics challenge across different workflows, illustrating concrete patterns for integrating SQL on FHIR into pipelines for batch, microservice, and data science workloads.
FlatQuack: FHIR Resources to SQL Tables with DuckDB
FlatQuack is an open source, SQL-on-FHIR View Definition to SQL compiler that targets DuckDB, a lightweight, high performance database engine.
DuckDB can scale from running as a single executable that queries a directory of FHIR resources on a local machine to querying across billions of resources in the cloud. By compiling View Definitions to plain SQL, FlatQuack can be easily integrated into existing data pipelines that use off-the-shelf orchestration tools like DBT and Apache Airflow.
Dan will show how FlatQuack can deliver low-cost, high-performance FHIR Analytics at scale.
Bridging Forms and Analytics: AI-Assisted FHIR Questionnaire and ViewDefinition Authoring
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Saidov
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Text to SQL to FHIR
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Using SQL on FHIR in the HL7 FHIR IG Publisher
This presentation will describe how the HL7 FHIR IG publisher uses SQL on FHIR ViewDefinitions to make it easier to include content out of the resources in pages in the implementation guide, and show same examples of the kinds of things that can be done with this technique.
Closing Roundtable
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