This is the first post for Matt's Bits on FHIR and contains no substanative help on any FHIR topic. It serves simply to announce the start of my humble blog. I've been building some relatively significant FHIR-based technologies over the past four years. Fortunately, with a huge patient population and data set, I've been able to develop some novel algorithms for the efficient management and use of such data. However, due to the confidential nature of competitive product development, I haven't been able to share any of my learnings or findings. That was then. This is now. I'm a big fan of designing health informatics systems around the concept of a native FHIR respository. A native FHIR repository leverages the existing, powerful FHIR data model, which is an extensible graph model that does a good job at capturing the health care domain. The native repository also provides the FHIR interoperability specification implementation, supporting the notion of cloud native a