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SMART on FHIR for Digital Health

What SMART on FHIR means for Digital Health organizations — and how we implement it at the architecture level.

What SMART on FHIR Means for Digital Health

SMART on FHIR in Digital Health environments carries requirements that go beyond the framework's general provisions. The specific operations of Digital Health organizations — their data processing scale, their regulatory relationships, and their operational dependencies — create compliance obligations that engineering teams must address at the architecture level. Generic SMART on FHIR compliance that ignores the Digital Health context will produce a system that passes audit by a framework-generalist but fails review by an industry-specialist examiner.

Our teams deploy in Digital Health environments with SMART on FHIR compliance built into the architecture from the first design decision. The compliance controls are not a layer added to an existing system — they are implemented as first-class components that generate evidence continuously as the system operates. The result is a system that is compliant on deployment day, remains compliant as it evolves, and produces audit evidence without manual assembly.

Key Requirements for Digital Health
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SMART on FHIR compliance documentation maintained as live system artifacts, not annual documentation projects

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Access controls that satisfy SMART on FHIR requirements for Digital Health data handling

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Audit logging that generates evidence meeting SMART on FHIR audit standards in Digital Health regulatory contexts

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Incident response procedures aligned to SMART on FHIR notification and reporting timelines

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Third-party vendor compliance documentation satisfying SMART on FHIR supply chain requirements

How The Algorithm Implements SMART on FHIR for Digital Health

We implement SMART on FHIR compliance for Digital Health clients by mapping the framework's requirements to the specific operational context of Digital Health organizations before writing application code. Controls are implemented through infrastructure-as-code, enforced automatically by ALICE at every commit, and documented through automated evidence generation pipelines. The result is a SMART on FHIR-compliant Digital Health system delivered on a fixed-price timeline.

Digital Health Compliance Landscape
HIPAASOC 2HITRUST
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SMART on FHIR Across Industries
SMART on FHIR for Healthcare — Hospitals & Health SystemsHIPAA, HITRUST contextView →SMART on FHIR for Healthcare — PayersHIPAA, SOC 2 contextView →SMART on FHIR for Healthcare — Pharmaceuticals & Life SciencesFDA 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA contextView →SMART on FHIR for Financial Services — Banking & Capital MarketsSOC 2, PCI-DSS contextView →SMART on FHIR for Financial Services — InsuranceSOC 2, NAIC contextView →SMART on FHIR for Financial Services — FintechSOC 2, PCI-DSS contextView →SMART on FHIR for Government & Public SectorFedRAMP, FISMA contextView →SMART on FHIR for Energy & UtilitiesNERC CIP, NIST contextView →SMART on FHIR for TelecommunicationsGDPR, NIS2 contextView →SMART on FHIR for Retail & E-CommercePCI-DSS, CCPA contextView →
Compliance Architecture. Fixed Price.

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We build compliance architecture for Digital Health organizations — SMART on FHIR and the full Digital Health compliance landscape — from the first infrastructure decision. Fixed price. Production delivery. No discovery phase.

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