Aidbox is undergoing a significant architectural shift by fully adopting the FHIR Schema engine that has been used in production environments by multiple Aidbox customers.
As part of this transition, the existing zen and EA (Entity/Attribute) engines will be deprecated in July 2025. They will be moved to Long-Term Support (LTS) for two years, after which they will reach end-of-life.
The adoption of FHIR Schema brings several benefits to Aidbox, including:
FHIR conformance
Fully supports FHIR StructureDefinitions and FHIR npm packages, ensuring compatibility with the latest standards and tools in the FHIR ecosystem.
Smarter validation
The FHIR Schema engine supports advanced features like FHIRPath invariants, slicing, and extensions, which allow you to apply precise, context-aware rules for more accurate and reliable validation of your resources. Plus, it gives you the flexibility to turn specific validation rules on or off based on your needs — so you stay in control without losing compliance.
Better performance
The FHIR Schema engine is 100 times faster than the official FHIR validator and 17 times faster than the zen validator. It is especially critical in high-load environments.
Ease of use
Aidbox integrates with the official FHIR Implementation Guide (IG) feed, featuring 700+ unique IGs that can be loaded to Aidbox in minutes. Aidbox will resolve and load transitive dependencies.
Dynamic configuration
Aidbox enables dynamic configuration with FHIR packages and canonical resources via UI and API with no restarts.
July 2025:
Health Samurai will publish Aidbox 2507.x image that will be considered an LTS (long-term support) version. This version will receive only critical security fixes for 2 years and will be the last version that supports zen and Entity/Attribute engines.
August 2025 and later
Starting from 2508.x version Aidbox will work using the FHIR schema engine only. Everything defined using zen and Entity/Attribute will not work.
July 2027:
Zen and Entity/Attribute engines will reach end-of-life. LTS support will end and no longer receive updates.
Please follow these steps to ensure smooth migration:
We know this transition needs careful planning. The Aidbox team will provide additional tooling and our Customer Success Team is ready to support you and answer any questions. Feel free to reach out for more guidance.
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HospitalonFHIR - FHIR Camp 2024 – Cascais/Lisbon 🌟 It was a great attending the FHIR Camp 2024, surrounded by passionate professionals and inspiring leaders in the healthcare interoperability space. It was truly an honor to learn from references like Grahame Grieve (and many more), alongside dedicated enthusiasts, all committed to advancing HL7 FHIR standards and fostering better healthcare systems worldwide.
Membro do conselho na E-Mais - Movimento Associação dos Sistemas de Informação Em Saúde
Had an amazing experience at the FHIR Camp 2024 organized by Health Samurai | Aidbox FHIR® Platform. Inspired by its transformative potential, I look forward to working further in FHIR and hope to see its implementation in Nepal's healthcare system as well.
Though a bit delayed but still I don’t want to miss out on talking about the recently concluded #FHIRCamp2024 organized by Health Samurai | Aidbox FHIR® Platform in the beautiful city of Cascais, Portugal.
Healthcare & Life-Sciences Consulting | HL7 FHIR® Expert | Digital Transformation Leader
I skipped a lot of recent conferences to prioritize attending FHIR Camp 2024 in Portugal the week before last. It was well worth the trip! It was great to hear Grahame Grieve give the background story on how FHIR came to be an open source effort. The open source angle is really important and unique in that it will require a lot of meaningful collaboration and perhaps unprecedented transparency (things we're not great at in the US) to advance these standards in the coming years. There is and will be a lot of opportunity for people to develop and offer FHIR expertise.
It was a pleasure to come to the #FHIR #camp in Cascais as a Hospitals on FHIR ambassador It was a pleasure to exchange our outlook on FHIR #versionning and how to deal with the multiple versions with Grahame Grieve, Lloyd McKenzie, Gino Canessa, Ewout Kramer and Nikolai Ryzhikov I also had the occasion to present the state of FHIR in #France and the work our community is doing to increase adoption And of course, always a pleasure to exchange with friends of the HL7 community.
FHIR interoperability expert and architect. CEO of Fyrstain. Hospitals On FHIR ambassador.
FHIR CAMP 2024 in Cascais, Portugal, was filled with excitement and activity. Here are some highlights that I'd love to share. This experience reflected the event's opening message: to connect systems and technologies, we must first connect with each other. It was an incredible day, and I can't wait to see what's next!
I'm back from the fantastic experience that was #FHIR Camp 2024 in Cascais, Portugal! I was grateful to reconnect with many of my long-time collaborators and also many new people that bring interesting perspectives that enhance our collective work. I really liked the format - I think it was very conducive to free-flowing conversation about new ideas and approaches. Thank you very much to Nikolai Ryzhikov, Pavel Smirnov and all of Health Samurai | Aidbox FHIR® Platform for the opportunity and the amazing support. I think the event was a great success!
I had the privilege of attending the FHIR® Camp 2024 🔥 in the beautiful Cascais, Lisbon 🇵🇹 hosted by Health Samurai | Aidbox FHIR® Platform The event brought together some of the brightest minds in the #HL7 #FHIR space, including industry pioneers like Grahame Grieve, Gino Canessa, Lloyd McKenzie, and many others! The sessions were not only inspiring but also directly relevant to the work we do at IgniteData.
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