1. Federal Health Architecture How to Prepare for an HIE Connectathon Adeola Odunlami, Senior Solutions Architect Health and Civilian Solutions Division 1

2. What is an IHE Connectathon? Organized by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) An IHE Connectathon is a cross-vendor, live, supervised, and structured testing event with over 150 participating vendors and 600+ engineers and IT architects (www.iheusa.org/connectathon.aspx) Largest interoperability testing event for health information exchange North American IHE Connectathon is held in Chicago Over 100 organizations and 150 systems participate each year 5 days of intense testing with other vendors Testing of several IHE Actors and Profiles Connectivity testing e.g. SOAP, HTTPS, TLS, TCP/IP Content based testing e.g. HITSP C32, Consolidated CDA, DICOMM 2

3. IHE Connectathon and CONNECT Code-a-Thon Connectathon focuses on interoperability testing of IHE actors and profiles CONNECT is an implementation of the NwHIN Exchange specification CONNECT Code-a-Thon is an opportunity for NwHIN Exchange partners to contribute to CONNECT Several of the NwHIN Exchange profiles are based on IHE profiles Patient Discovery (PD) based on Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) profile Query for Document (QD) & Retrieve Document (RD) based on Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b) profile 3

4. Benefits of Participating in an IHE Connectathon Unique opportunity to test with multiple vendors and systems Independent product/system testing Wide range of test scenarios Includes some Meaningful Use Stage 2 test scenarios Increased quality assurance of product/system being tested Ensure compliance with IHE profiles and HL7 standards Prerequisite for participating in the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase From www.ihe.netwww.ihe.net 4

5. Pre-Connectathon Activities Attend IHE Webinars Identify IHE actors and profiles to test Transactions to test will depend on the IHE actors and profiles supported Test cases for each actor/profile pair are documented in an online system called Gazelle Mandatory tests need to be executed and results verified to qualify to participate in an IHE Connectathon These test cases help participants determine if they are ready to test with other systems Several test tools are available e.g. NIST and IHE toolkits Perform Internet testing with other Connectathon partners 5

6. What Happens During an IHE Connectathon? One week of intense testing Each actor and profile pair is assigned a set of unit and integration test cases to perform Each integration test case must be performed with a specified number of partners Must use secure messaging Must support IHE compliant auditing Test cases and results are documented and captured in an online system called Gazelle Test results are reviewed by Connectathon monitors 6

7. What Happens During an IHE Connectathon? Connectathon monitors mark tests as passed or failed in Gazelle The testing is a collaborative effort Participants work together during testing Participants help each other identify problems Participants agree to keep their systems up and running the entire week Planning and testing for HIMSS Interoperability Showcase starts on the final day 7

8. Additional Information IHE Technical Framework and Profiles http://www.ihe.net/Technical_Framework/index.cfm IHE Connectathon http://www.iheusa.org/connectathon.aspx HIMSS Interoperability Showcase http://www.interoperabilityshowcase.org/himss13 8