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Jeff Helman

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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Jeff Helman

FHIR Implementation Quality: Preventing the Great Escape

“Escaped Defects” are defects that are discovered in production. Wow. Let that sink in for a moment. This is healthcare we’re talking about; people’s lives are on the line. Although the certainty of catastrophe is not the same as with a faulty space shuttle O-ring, the potential for patient tragedy is the payload of each

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Mario Hyland

When HTTP 200 is NOT OK

Are you under the impression that receiving an HTTP 200 (“OK”) response means your FHIR implementation is conformant to the FHIR specifications or implementation guide(s)? If so, we are sorry to disappoint you. In our work to help implementers accelerate their FHIR implementations, we see many tests that are looking for that “HTTP 200” response

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Videos

FHIR Test Script Value

Gil Alvarez 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.

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