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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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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At this month’s virtual HL7® FHIR® Connectathon, you can validate the full end-to-end HL7 UDAP workflow, including automated checking of requests and responses and the contents of the JWTs within. HL7 UDAP (https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/fhir-udap-security-ig/index.html) is an OAuth-2-based authorization mechanism that is on the draft roadmaps of the national HIEs and TEFCA. Here’s a quick demo: https://youtu.be/pCCnV66sItA […]
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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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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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Join us once again Nov. 3-4, 2021 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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Wishing everyone a restful weekend and offering some traditional “Sunday funnies” – not to mention a fun, easy way to see why testing is so important – with our very own Dr. Interoperability 🙂 Artistic credit: Jaymie Y. Im
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I saw a horse pulling a carriage the other day and noticed that the horse had blinders on. Blinders are those square pieces of leather on the side of each of the horse’s eyes. It prevents the horse from becoming distracted and allows it to focus on moving ahead when trotting among the city traffic. […]
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