IHE Testing and Tools Committee 2010-03-15 Teleconference Minutes

Attendees

• Chris Carr - RSNA
• Didi Davis - Serendipity Consulting
• Nichole Drye-Mayo - RSNA
• Jane Gilbert - IHE Australia
• Flora Lum - AAO
• Bill Majurski - NIST
• Vince McCauley - IHE Australia
• Joan McMillen - RSNA
• Steve Moore - MIR
• Rob Snelick - NIST

Minutes

1) Training Events

• Eric and Peter K working on logistics for June 7-9 event in Paris
• Sept. event in US could be scheduled HL7 Meeting, first week of October

• Week of Sept. 27 a possibility

2) Gazelle Development Status

• Optimizing the application for use in Bordeaux; first time it will be the main platform
• IHE-J considering using Gazelle for October Connectathon; (annct in May; Reg in June)
• IHE-Australia using for April testing event; possibly also in July event
• Now have meta tests functionality in Gazelle
• Rewriting the Connectathon grading page
• IHE J has visited Rennes to deliver the DICOM part of the proxy
• Lynn F and Eric's group converting existing Kudu tests to Gazelle platform

• Test plans/instructions need to be converted completely
• Individual process steps being added as possible on priority basis
• Automated test simulators will be place for PIX/PDQ, but not other profiles

3) Development Tasks

• Conversion of test scripts has been done domain-by-domain

• Steve: PCC
• Eric: Lab/Path
• Lynn: Radiology/Cardiology

• First set of development tasks: develop Simulators to plug into Gazelle

• Priority profiles: PIX/PDQ (underway), Rad SWF, Lab SWF (IHE-J taking on)
• Steve Moore has list of priority profiles to match with interests
• IHE Australia may have bandwidth in April-July time frame to take on tasks

• Tests for new profiles
• Internet testing with Gazelle
• Using Proxies to extract context information; check actual data values (as opposed to general message validation) with NIST EVS

• Needs to be harmonized with existing NIST pre-Connectathon test tool, which does extract these content elements (eg, validation on expected ID returned)

• Action Item: Steve M to distribute priority "sign-up list"

4) Connectathon Guidelines

• Australian Comments: timelines geared toward North American and European events; may need smaller, additional events

• Australia has an event in July time frame; but also occasionally has more targeted events that receive government support; may include testing beyond IHE profiles

• Transitional arrangement necessary: could give notice for standing meetings, but not for all events
• General Announcements: need to better describe method for making anncts
• Profiles
• In Gazelle when we create a test instance of test we select the domain that we want to test

• Action Item: Chris Carr to revise draft Guidelines to incorporate
• Action Item: Vince McCauley will provide information on annual Connectathon plans

5) NIST RFI/RFPs

• Sources Sought announcement has been issued for smaller standards test services provider
• Related RFPs to follow in March-April time frame; 30-day submission period

6) Next tcon: Monday, March 22, 10am CT

• Next tcon at adjusted time: Monday, April 19, 3pm CT

Testing and Tools Committee