As of early 2025, we have replaced our occasional Touchstone Training sessions with monthly Touchstone Office Hours & Demo sessions (the third Monday of each month @ 1:00 pm ET), during which we engage with the Touchstone community (current users, fans, skeptics, tire-kickers; all are welcome) to: Answer questions about Touchstone, FHIR testing, or you-name-the-topic; […]
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Anyone who has been around software development for a while has confronted the insistence by stakeholders that we conjure up a silver bullet to make all their dreams come true, such as unlimited features on a minimal budget, along with algorithms that make costs and effort magically disappear. (OK, I am exaggerating. Slightly.) got AI? […]
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OPTIMIZE YOUR PREPARATION FOR THE JULY 2024 CMS & HL7 FHIR CONNECTATHON. With the number and sophistication of HL7® FHIR® Implementation Guides rapidly increasing, knowing that your FHIR implementations conform to those IGs and the underlying FHIR specifications is more important than ever. Touchstone is the anchor of our FHIR validation ecosystem which empowers your […]
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With the number and sophistication of HL7® FHIR® Implementation Guides rapidly increasing, knowing that your FHIR implementations are conformant to those IGs and the underlying FHIR specifications is more important than ever. Touchstone is the anchor of our FHIR validation ecosystem which empowers your FHIR implementation team to objectively measure the accuracy of their implementation […]
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During the past few HL7® quarterly FHIR® Connectathons and Workgroup Meetings, the FHIR community has been debating the impact of what I’m calling “version collisions:” when someone makes a FHIR request for healthcare data expecting that they will receive a response conforming to US Core 3.1.1, but they receive a response with data conforming to […]
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This is the second installment of our “FHIR Starter” series, which we are writing to help teams filter out the noise and excitement of the burgeoning FHIR community so they can focus on the signal–how to be successful with real-world FHIR implementations. If you missed our first installment, check that out here. In this installment, […]
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As the HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) community grows, an increasing volume of FHIR information and a ballooning community of self-appointed FHIR experts are bursting onto the scene. This is a welcome sign of the emergence of a robust FHIR ecosystem, and we celebrate that. Health IT is hard; as a technical domain, its […]
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Join us once again October 11-12, 2023 for two days of hands-on HL7® FHIR® and AEGIS Touchstone training with our expert team of FHIR developers. AEGIS has trained hundreds of developers to build with HL7 FHIR using Touchstone, our cloud-based platform that supports FHIR conformance as you build. Whether you are new to HL7 FHIR or looking […]
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“Escaped Defects” are defects that are discovered in production. Wow. Let that sink in for a moment. This is healthcare we’re talking about; people’s lives are on the line. Although the certainty of catastrophe is not the same as with a faulty space shuttle O-ring, the potential for patient tragedy is the payload of each […]
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Drummond’s G10 FHIR® API+ Certification Program is powered by the AEGIS Touchstone FHIR® testing ecosystem. Rockville, Maryland, July 7, 2022 – Approval by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT ( ONC) of Drummond’s 170.315(g)(10) conformance test suites on the AEGIS.net Touchstone FHIR® test tool and developer platform gives health IT developers two […]
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