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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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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FHIR Starter #2

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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FHIR Starter #1

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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HL7® FHIR® and Touchstone Virtual Training October 11-12, 2023

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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FHIR IGs: The “G” is for GUIDE. So let’s do that!

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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HL7® FHIR® and Touchstone Virtual Training Nov. 3-4, 2021

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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HL7® FHIR® and Touchstone Virtual Training May 5-6, 2021

Join us May 5-6, 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 for skills and […]

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HL7® FHIR® and Touchstone Virtual Training Feb. 3-4, 2021

“Touchstone’s training program unlocked the power of this testing environment for us. Like any specialized tool, we needed to learn how to use it. The training helped my whole team understand how to harness the tests supplied within the Touchstone platform and we now see the potential for specifying custom tests of our own too.  […]

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Sunday Funnies: Dr. Interoperability

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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