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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Are we really publishing guides for implementation? If we want to buy a newly built house, we have a few options. The most common is choosing a standard floor plan from a community of houses being built by a mass-production builder. “Mass-production” means “build a few configurations (plans) many times to make each build most […]
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Are you under the impression that receiving an HTTP 200 (“OK”) response means your FHIR implementation is conformant to the FHIR specifications or implementation guide(s)? If so, we are sorry to disappoint you. In our work to help implementers accelerate their FHIR implementations, we see many tests that are looking for that “HTTP 200” response […]
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Connectathons are at risk of devolving into check-the-box participation and demonstration events. Let’s fix that. Not that long ago, health IT implementers attended annual (IHE) Connectathon events to test and polish their nearly-ready-for-production (most advanced) implementations. This was (and they still are) a big deal, with significant costs to register, prepare and attend. IHE Connectathon […]
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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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AEGIS has submitted the following response on behalf of the Testing community. We look forward to continuing to work alongside the HL7 FHIR community, ONC, and all implementers. 2022 03 25 AEGIS – RFI RIN 0955-AA04 FINAL
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We are looking forward to being back in Orlando this year for HIMSS22. Join the AEGIS team at Booth 2029 to learn more about: How to accelerate your FHIR implementations and leverage Test Driven Development (TDD) How to know your FHIR implementations are actually interoperable How to make your QA team more effective Advanced cloud-based approaches […]
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AEGIS has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to support the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) with Testing and Evaluation services. The JAIC T&E BPA is a five-year, multiple award BPA that will allow the acquisition, development, and integration of commercial AI tools and services in support of the DoD and […]
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