Telehealth in the United States in 2026 covers a wider range of clinical encounters than it did five years ago, from urgent video visits to chronic care follow-ups to fully asynchronous text-based consults. The form builders that support th

For US health systems picking a FHIR form builder, the open-source vs commercial decision is the second-most-important one after picking the tool itself. The license cost is the visible difference, but the operational reality is more subtle

LOINC panels are deceptively complex. A panel like PHQ-9 has nine question codes, each with its own answer list, plus a total score that is itself a LOINC code with a numeric answer. Many SDC form builders render PHQ-9 fine when configured

A FHIR form engine that does not integrate cleanly with the EHR is mostly a research project. For American hospital deployments, the integration story (how the QuestionnaireResponse becomes Observations in Epic or Cerner, how the form picks

Patient intake forms are the first impression a clinic makes on a patient and the first data the clinical team works with. Done well, they capture demographics, history, and consent in a way that flows straight into the EHR. Done badly, the

Most US hospitals already have a form engine. It might be the one built into the EHR, a separate vendor product like JotForm or Formstack, or a homegrown set of HTML forms. The question that comes up when FHIR enters the picture is whether

Open-source FHIR form builders make sense for US healthcare teams that want to own the rendering layer, avoid recurring license costs, or integrate forms deeply into a custom clinical product. The catch is that not every open-source project

FHIR Questionnaire and QuestionnaireResponse resources sit behind a lot of the day-to-day work American clinical teams do: PHQ-9 screening, fall-risk assessments, intake history, research consent. The tooling around those resources has matu

SDC (Structured Data Capture) is the IG that takes a FHIR Questionnaire from a flat list of questions to a real interactive form, with skip logic, calculated expressions, and value-set-backed answer choices. The form builders that fully imp