FHIR
Also known as: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources · HL7 FHIR
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced 'fire') is HL7's standard for exchanging healthcare data over RESTful APIs. Each resource — Patient, Observation, Encounter, MedicationRequest — has a canonical schema and a stable URL pattern. FHIR is the interop layer for EHR integration; TantraDev defaults to FHIR R4 for new HealthTech builds and Bridge / proxy adapters where the legacy EHR speaks HL7 v2.
Concepts that travel with this one.
Architecture rarely lives in isolation — these are the terms that come up in the same conversation.
HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) governs how Protected Health Information (PHI) is stored, transmitted, and accessed in the United States. The Privacy Rule defines what counts as PHI; the Security Rule mandates administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. TantraDev's HealthTech work treats HIPAA as architecture input from sprint one — encryption posture, audit logging, BAA scope, and minimum-necessary access all shape the design.
HealthTech
HealthTech is the engineering of clinical, administrative, and patient-facing healthcare software under HIPAA, FHIR, and (in India) DPDP constraints. Architectural pressure points are PHI handling, role-based access at the row level, immutable audit logs that survive a forensic review, and interop with legacy EHRs that often speak HL7 v2 over MLLP. The work is rarely greenfield — it is usually a careful integration around a payer or provider that cannot tolerate downtime.
Building a system where FHIR is the load-bearing decision?
30 minutes on the phone, one page in your inbox — what to build, what to skip, what it will cost. You keep the audit even if we are not the right fit.