Category: Json Diff Desk

Editorial illustration in origami-folded style depicting structural vs semantic FHIR diff modes side-by-side

Structural Diff vs Semantic Diff for FHIR JSON

Two FHIR diffs of the same pair of resources can produce very different output. A structural diff finds every byte-level change. A semantic diff finds every clinically meaningful change. The two are related and different, and knowing which...

Editorial illustration in origami-folded style depicting two FHIR resources with noise fields folded away and clinical differences highlighted

Json Diff Desk

Diffing Two FHIR Resources Without Drowning in Reference Noise

Diffing two versions of a FHIR resource sounds like a solved problem. Then you run a generic JSON diff over an Observation from two servers and the output is a wall of meta.lastUpdated, id, and reference-URL changes that swamp the two...