IHE Testing and Tools Committee 2010-07-19 Teleconference Minutes

Attendees

1) September Connectathon Manager Training Event Update

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Action Item: Chris Carr to send specific invitation to national groups and others managing Connectathons

2) Gazelle Status

Charles Parisot provided input on development priorities of epSOS project testing

epSOS testing will require some modifications of NIST XD* toolkit. These changes may be relatively minor updates.
Is it necessary to integrate (all or parts of) toolkit in advance of Sept. epSOS testing? This could be a substantially larger piece of work.
epSOS will test system-to-system connectivity across 10 national systems: exchange of medical summaries and prescriptions for tourist patient using variant of XCA (combining query and retrieve; fully coded CDAs or XDS-SD (CDA header + pdf)

Profiles used: XCPD, ATNA, XUA, XDR, PCC templates combined into a variant of XPHR (adding prescription info - will be fed back into PCC)
IHE E will oversee training, testing and "projectathon"; INRIA team has added two developers to manage project
Eric has started developing schematrons for validating documents to epSOS spec; How do these relate to the tools developed by NIST? Level and nature of support requested from NIST needs to be clarified
Goal is to have a tool available in August based on NIST tool (ie, not integrated with Gazelle); toolkit based on Tiani implementation
Needs support for XCPD testing, which is not currently developed
Aug-Oct countries do pre-Projectathon testing; event to be held in Bratislava in November
Tools need to be integrated into Gazelle for countries to use in October

Bill Majurski is in the process of re-architecting the XD* validation toolkit to separate simulator components to give better feedback; first piece is more detailed message validation; needs guidance on which of the new components are required for epSOS and how much use it can make of existing components
Will epSOS Projectathon require simulators? Probably so, to plug performance gaps in participating systems

Action Item: Charles will confer with Karima Bourquard regarding any requests to be made to Bill Majurski before he leaves for vacation Wednesday (7/28)
Action Item: For August 16, bring together technical contributors to testing tools to discuss coordination of development work; need to have Gazelle API documented in order to develop scope of work and timelines; invite representatives from NIST: Rob Snelick, Andrew McCaffery, Mary Laminan
Action Item: Tcon next Monday, July 26 to plan for Aug. 16 tcon: Bill, Eric and Karima in addition to rest of Testing and Tools Committee

3) Other Development Tasks

4) Connectathon Guidelines Update