1. Internet testing prior to the Connectathon Welcome!! Please must your line as you enter. We will have Q&A at the end.

2. Intended audience Vendors testing IHE profiles at the connectathon This presentation does not address: Testing in preparation for the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase Certification or New Directions testing Testing of C-CDA documents

3. Topics Overview of internet testing model How do I participate? How do I specify what I want to test? How do I tell test partners how to connect to me? How do I find compatible test partners? How do test partners find me? How do I contact my partner to arrange for testing? What tests should I run? Tools to support internet testing Q&A

4. Internet testing model This is an optional activity Using gazelle – You decide which profiles/actors you want to test – You specify your configurations for connecting via the internet – You identify a person in your organization as a primary contact for internet testing – You find compatible test partner(s) Contact your test partner & arrange for testing at a time of your choosing Run tests that you will execute at connectathon (or, do some other test) No Connectathon Manager will examine these results

5. How do I participate? Register in the “Internet Testing Session” in gazelle; select profiles/actors Pay close attention to who you identify as the “owner” of your internet test system “Registration” remains open until the connectathon How to….

6. Know where you are What testing session have I chosen in gazelle?

7. How do I tell test partners how to connect to me Generate your own default configs in gazelle (this is different than non-internet testing session) Update and approve them How to….

8. What about OIDs assigned for a testing session? Examples: sourceID, repositoryUniqueID, homeCommunityId, Patient ID assigning authority…. Use the ones from the connectathon testing session

9. How do I find my partner’s configurations? Same method as for Connectathon configs: – Configuration parameters – IP address How to….

10. How do I find compatible test partners? How do they find me? You will be relying on other vendors to sign up to be complimentary actors The number of vendors signed up will evolve over time How to…

11. How do I contact my partner to arrange for testing? The email address of the ‘owner’ of the test system will be visible to your test partners You may optionally provide a skypeId How to…

12. What tests should I run? You may choose to run connectathon tests, but these are ‘practice’ and will not count for connectathon testing You may choose to do something else No test results, log files, etc. from internet testing will be examined by Connectathon Managers How to…

13. Tools to support internet testing Patient ID generation (HL7v2/v3 feed): – Gazelle Patient Generation & Sharing Details: http://na2014.wustl.edu/TechnicalPrep/PatientIDTools.html

14. Questions?