To state the obvious, open-source software (“OSS”), also called “free, open-source software” (“FOSS”) is everywhere. (I’ll use “OSS” in the rest of this article for consistency.) OSS packages keep the Internet operating, and nearly every company and government agency uses OSS. Literally every computer user globally relies on OSS to function. This is hard to […]
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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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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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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 […]
Read moreSince our May 2023 Touchstone Release 6.0.0, the AEGIS Health IT team has been preparing the Touchstone community for our updated 2024 subscription pricing model. Touchstone 6.0.0 marks the transition from the introductory pricing accompanying our original R&D effort to a pricing model reflecting a production-hardened, full-featured enterprise-class product offering. This is our first Touchstone price […]
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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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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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For the 4th time in five years, AEGIS has been named as one of only 61 top IT companies in the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) annual Tech100 list. We are super proud of this recognition in the company of so many incredible technology firms making their home in the metro DC area. “Congratulations to […]
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