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The objective of the first pan-Canadian Projectathon is 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. The aims of the Projectathon are to identify potential issues in the basic specifications, give implementers a chance to test their implementations in live environments, and strengthen implementation guidelines and standards in the health sector.
Infoway views this as a preliminary event before any conformity assessment, quality label or certification process.
Vendors and jurisdictions who are planning to implement the PS-CA Specifications are invited to participate in the Projectathon. In addition, any interested party that has Patient Summaries in their future roadmap are welcome to participate.
By participating in the Projectathon, you will:
Additionally, through participation in the Projectathon, participants can prepare for practical applications of the PS-CA Specifications.
A suite of virtual tools, collectively referred to as Gazelle, will be deployed to support a free, 3-day remote testing event in March 2022. Gazelle provides jurisdictions and vendors an opportunity to validate the role they will be playing in an ecosystem and ensure they are able to satisfy the interoperability requirements. Furthermore, Gazelle offers several self-serve, self-test and innovation opportunities for jurisdictions and vendors to test their alignment to the represented integration profiles.
The Projectathon event is organized by Infoway with support from a world leader organization in the space - IHE Catalyst.
Infoway will stand up a virtualized instance of the Gazelle platform and 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 the Header, Medication Summary, Allergies & Intolerances, Problem List, History of Procedures, and Past History of Illness.
In preparation for the Projectathon, Infoway and IHE Catalyst will:
Participant requirements for participation in the Projectathon include:
Vendor | Jurisdiction | |
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Register for event, including signing a Participation Agreement | X | X |
Attend 3 training webinars | X | X |
Complete connectivity testing | X | X |
Validate test cases and clinical scenarios | X | X |
Integrate to Gazelle platform | X | X |
Create test records | X | |
Implement APIs | X | |
Prototype FHIR transactions | X | X |
Prototype the PS-CA FHIR document | X | |
Prototype export of FHIR document | X | X |
The registration period will be open from January 20 - February 11, 2022.
A registration webinar will be held on January 20, 2022 at 11AM ET. This webinar will include an overview of the:
The Pre-Projectathon Tests Period will be open from February 14 - March 11, 2022. The purpose of the Pre-Projectathon test are to help vendors:
Test their IHE profile implementation in their system with the virtual systems in Gazelle (simulators) in order to find and fix issues;
Improve the quality of their tests prior to the Projectathon; and
Help to familiarize themselves the with Gazelle tool prior to the Projectathon, including how to access and use the Gazelle simulators to perform the tests.
A Pre-Projectathon Tests webinar will be held on February 14, 2022. This webinar, participants will be shown how to access and use Gazelle in order to perform the tests.
The Connectivity Testing Period will be open from February 25 - March 11, 2022. The purpose of the Connectivity Testing Period is to check, in advance, whether your system is configured and ready to communicate with other vendor systems during the Projectathon event.
A Connectivity Testing webinar will be held on February 25, 2022.
Specifications The PS-CA Interoperability Bundle is comprised of the following specification documents that may be accessed here. | Revision | Revision date |
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pan-Canadian Patient Summary Interoperability Specifications (PS-CA Specifications)
| 0.2 | January 28, 2022 |
pan-Canadian Patient Summary – FHIR Implementation Guide
| 0.2 | January 28, 2022 |
pan-Canadian Patient Summary - Companion Guide to Use Cases & Definitions
| 0.2 | January 28, 2022 |
pan-Canadian Patient Summary - Companion Guide to Reference Architecture
| 0.2 | January 28, 2022 |
In addition to the PS-CA Interoperability Bundle, you may wish to review this diagram which provides a high-level view of relevant Integration Profiles to support the PS-CA project. This view contains a superset of profiles that offer alternatives to exchanging Patient Summaries, depending on Jurisdictional service type and availability. Mandatory and optional capability support is described in the sequence diagrams associated with each Use Case analysis.
Tool documentation is available at https://pancanadianIO.ca. From the home page, you may access the documentation for each tool by clicking on the respective PDF icon.
Below are the connection details for the testing tool hosted in the testing environment. All tools can be accessed at this IP address: XXX.
REQUIRED ACTORS
Participants must play the role of one of the required actors from the table below.
Tested Actor | Transaction | Simulated Actor | Port | Comments |
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Tool: TBD | ||||
MHD Document Source | MHD* Provide Document Bundle [ITI-65] | MHD Document Recipient | ||
MHD Document Consumer | MHD* Find Document Lists [ITI-66] | MHD Document Responder | ||
MHD Document Consumer | MHD* Find Document References [ITI-67] | MHD Document Responder | ||
MHD Document Consumer | MHD* Retrieve Document [ITI-68] | MHD Document Responder | ||
Tool: TBD | ||||
CA:FeX Document Source | CA:FeX* Submit FHIR Bundle [CA:FeX-1] | CA:FeX Document Recipient | ||
CA:FeX Document Consumer | CA:FeX* Search FHIR Bundle [CA:FeX-2] | CA:FeX Document Responder | ||
CA:FeX Document Consumer | CA:FeX* Retrieve FHIR Bundle [CA:FeX-3] | CA:FeX Document Responder |
OPTIONAL ACTORS
Participants may also choose to play the role of any of the optional actors from the table below,
Tested Actor | Transaction | Simulated Actor | Port | Comments |
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Tool: TBD | ||||
PDQm Patient Demographic Consumer | PDQm Mobile Patient Demographics Query [ITI-78] | PMIR Patient Identifier Registry | ||
PIXm Patient Identifier Cross-reference Consumer | PIXm Mobile Patient Identifier Cross-reference Query [ITI-83] | PMIR Patient Identifier Registry | ||
Tool: TBD | ||||
IUA Authorization Client | IUA* Get Access Token [ITI-71] | IUA Authorization Server (Authorization Broker) | ||
IUA Authorization Client | IUA* Incorporate Access Token [ITI-72] | IUA Resource Server | ||
IUA Resource Server | IUA* Introspect Token [ITI-102] | IUA Authorization Server (Authorization Broker) | ||
Tool: TBD | ||||
ATNA SN / SA | ATNA* Node Authentication [ITI-19] | ATNA Audit Repository | ||
ATNA SN / SA | ATNA* Record Audit Event [ITI-20] | ATNA Audit Repository | ||
CT Time Client | CT* Maintain Time [ITI-1] | CT Time Client / Time Server | ||
Tool: TBD | ||||
SVCM Terminology Consumer | SVCM* Query Value Set [ITI-95] | SVCM Terminology Repository | ||
SVCM Terminology Consumer | SVCM* Query Code System [ITI-96] | SVCM Terminology Repository |
Below are short information sheets to support your preparation for the Projectathon:
Technical Manager | |
Google Group | |
Live Environment | |
Recordings of Training | |
Helpdesk |
Key Dates | Activity and Overview |
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January 20 | Participant Registration Webinar This webinar will include an overview of the:
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January 17 – February 11 | Participant registration will be open from January 17 – February 11. |
February 14 | Pre-Projectathon Testing Webinar
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February 14 – March 11 | Pre-Projectathon testing will occur between February 14 – March 11. |
February 25 | Connectivity Testing Webinar |
February 28 – March 11 | Connectivity testing will occur between February 28 – March 11. |
March 21 – March 23 | Projectathon Event |