Health Insights

Where our experts share health IT industry trends and insights.

Blog Posts

Health IT
Jeff Helman

Touchstone Office Hours

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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Health IT
Jeff Helman

Too Good To Be True?

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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Health IT
Jeff Helman

HL7® FHIR® and Touchstone Virtual Training July 10-11, 2024

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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Videos

FHIR Test Script Value

Gil Alterovitz discusses the value of FHIR test scripts.

Testing & Validation with Sandy Vance

Sandy Vance presents the importance of testing for compliance to the CMS Interoperability Rules.

FHIR testing with ONC Inferno, MITRE Crucible, and AEGIS Touchstone

Ryan Harrison of Amida compares tools being used for HL7 FHIR Testing.

White Papers and Case Studies