Definition
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A Projectathon, one step of the complete testing process, is a best-practice collaborative approach where implementers test specifications and solutions using IHE Methodology and Tools to accelerate interoperability.
Focus
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The focus for our first Projectathon is to test and improve the PS-CA quality to ensure it is implementable, testable and meets expectations. We view this as a preliminary event before any conformity assessment, quality label or certification process.
By participating, you will help achieve these goals, and will also get familiar with the validation/testing processes and tools, accelerate your readiness for implementation. ensure quality for the benefit of clinicians and patients and save time and money through a harmonized pan-Canadian approach.
Scope
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Infoway’s scope will include the development of a virtual application named Gazelle, to run the Projectathon in mid-February for 3 days. We will provide training in advance of the Projectathon and support during the event. Together we will collaborate to define clinical scenarios for both EMR and HIS solutions, including “create and submit a summary” and “query and retrieve a published summary”. Provincial solutions will act as repositories and patient summary content will consist of Header, Medication Summary, Allergies & Intolerances, Problem List, History of Procedures, Past History of Illness.
Pre-Event: January - February 2022
- ½ day webinar on Gazelle platform and integration logistics - all participants
- Integrate to Gazelle platform - all participants
- Create test records - EMR/HIS vendors
- Prototype 4 FHIR transactions - all participants
- Prototype FHIR payload resources - EMR/HIS vendors
- Bundle Profile (2 data attributes, 4 resource reference attributes)
- Composition Profile (23 data attributes, 8 resource reference attributes)
- Prototype export of FHIR document - all participants
During Event: February 2022
- Execution of test scenarios
- Validation of outputs and feedback on the specification
- Lessons learned: implementation, change management implications, testing process, other
Immediate Next Steps (by December 17, 2021)
- Follow up with target participants
- Gather feedback on feasible scope and resource commitment
- Finalize scope and secure participation
Overview
One of the core principles driving the design of the Interoperability Program is a commitment to generating implementable specifications. An implementable specification is one where the sought after capabilities are testable by industry and leads to approaches where plug&play interoperability becomes a tenable target.
There are international success stories that have demonstrated wins in the area of interoperability, we see them in North America, Europe and Asia. They are based on published specifications modelled in an interoperability platform called Gazelle. The platform implements the normative specification in the form of Actors/Transactions and offers technical connectivity capabilities for vendor systems to assert and test for claims that their solutions implement complement Actors. This allows the market to self test in preparation for industry events called Connectathons where solutions can and do carry out interoperable transactions with peers from other companies. The platform also supports conformity assessment and testing so that vendors that pass these can legitimately claim support for the enacted Actor/Transaction pairs.
This practical approach has been shown to support large scale interoperability and allows for eco-system planning for policy makers and jurisdictional governments alike.
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