FHIR-Native Patient App
Building a SMART on FHIR Patient Portal with Valid FHIR R4 Data
Overview
CodeBricks built a FHIR-native patient portal implementation that connects to a public SMART on FHIR sandbox and renders patient data from valid FHIR R4 resources. The application shows how a digital health product can authenticate through a healthcare-standard launch flow, retrieve structured clinical data, and present appointments, labs, and medications in a clean patient-facing interface. This engineering case study gives teams evaluating FHIR integration a practical proof point: standards-aware authentication, resource fetching, and clinical presentation in one reviewable scope of work.
The Challenge
FHIR integration is one of the most common requirements in modern digital health, but many software teams can only deliver a generic dashboard. Healthcare buyers need to know whether a team understands patient context, OAuth token handling, resource search, clinical codes, units, normal ranges, and safe use of synthetic data. A generic patient profile screen is not enough. Credibility comes from pulling real-format FHIR resources from a sandbox and rendering them the way clinical information actually appears in production systems.
Research & Strategy
We scoped a production-style patient portal with a narrow, high-value resource scope: Patient, Appointment, Observation, and MedicationRequest. The browser app handles the SMART standalone launch and patient experience while fhirclient-js communicates with a public sandbox FHIR server. We kept the implementation close to FHIR resources instead of vague generic objects so technical reviewers can see standards-aware field mapping, LOINC display names, units, normal ranges, and abnormal indicators in the lab results view.
The Solution
Results & Impact
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