Introduction
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The Projectathon 2023 is another important step, and continues to be the Building on the successes of the first pan-Canadian Projectathon event held in March 2022, Infoway, in collaboration with the provinces and territories, invites vendors to participate in the March 2023 Projectathon. Projectathons are an important step and best-practice approach , in testing and validation of the a specification package, where implementers collaborate to test their solutions using methodology and tools that accelerate interoperability.demonstrate live interoperability of solutions in conformance with pan-Canadian specifications.
The focus of the Projectathon March 2022 was The first pan-Canadian Projectathon was held in March 2022 to test and improve the quality of the pan-Canadian Patient Summary Interoperability Specifications (PS-CA Specifications) to ensure they are implementable, testable and meet expectations. Details about this event are available in the pan-Canadian Projectathon Final Report.
The March 2023 Projectathon will be dedicated to supporting Patient Summary implementation projects across Canada.
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Focus of the Projectathon March 2023
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The Projectathon 2023 will focus on interoperability demonstrations based on the pan-Canadian Patient Summary (PS-CA v1.0.0 TI) and the associated pan-Canadian FHIR Exchange (CA:FeX v1.0.0 TI) specifications, both ready for trial implementation. The PS-CA specification defines the building blocks to create and share patient summaries. The CA:FeX specification promotes FHIR RESTful exchange patterns that can be applied on top of existing non-FHIR infrastructure and FHIR servers. These two specification packages support secure exchange of a patient’s health summary document, are represented using the normative release 4.0.1 of the HL7® FHIR® standard, and are closely aligned to the International Patient Summary specification (IPS).
While all jurisdictions have collaborated on the design and review of the patient summary specification, Alberta and Ontario are leading implementation efforts beginning in 2023; other jurisdictions will leverage their learnings. The national and provincial Patient Summary specifications (PS-CA/PS-AB/PS-ON) are harmonized. Vendors should be able to build a single codebase for implementation across multiple provinces, supporting small differences through configuration.
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On October 17th, 2022, the Specifications package was approved by the Interoperability Executive Table to be adopted and used by jurisdictions and vendors for Trial Implementation*. *The Trial Implementation maturity-level designation indicates that a specification is deemed ready for trial implementation in production systems for limited scale projects to meet a health care interoperability need. It has been cycled through public open review periods with jurisdictions and industry partners with all feedback dispositioned, changes incorporated and where appropriate, backlog items identified for a future release. A TI designated specification has been tested and validated, at a Projectathon, where implementers collaborate to test their solutions using methodologies and tools that accelerate interoperability and verify that the specification is deemed ready for trial implementation. Trial implementation is one step closer in the evolution of a final specification, when it is deemed ready for certification. |
The Specifications package for the Projectathon 2023 includes:
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And two supporting specifications:
- pan-Canadian FHIR Exchange: CA:FeX v1.0.0 TI
- Reference Architecture: RA v0.1.1 DFT
Testing & Tools Overview
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Vendors will have an opportunity to test and demonstrate capabilities in two distinct areas of the specification:
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2. Secure, exchange transactions
This area of testing will focus on validating the recommended secure exchange methods of the FHIR summary document as presented in the Reference Architecture (RA v0.1.1 DFT), linked to the PS-CA and CA:FeX specifications.
Implementation patterns may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and information exchange channels may vary in terms of their security footprint. Therefore, the Projectathon test cases have been organized into two categories:
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What's Next: High-Level Timeline
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The Projectathon event is planned to be held virtually during the week of March 6, 2023, however, the possibility of a hybrid in-person testing environment is still being investigated. Two days of effort per vendor are generally sufficient for testing after suitable preparation. There will be several opportunities to support testing preparation as part of vendor onboarding and our team will be available to support vendors every step of the way.
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Stay tuned! More information on the detailed scope and logistics of the event coming soon! |