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Publications & Presentations
NIST provides the conformance tests, test tools and techniques to advance healthcare information technology standards that are complete and testable. As an introduction and overview into testing, the following publications and presentations provide details around healthcare information technology conformance and interoperability testing.
Additionally, see the book titled “Healthcare Interoperability Standards Compliance Handbook” co-authored by NIST’s Robert Snelick.
Articles on Conformance Testing
- Advancing HL7 v2 to New Heights: A Platform for Developing Specifications, Test Plans, and Testing Tools
- An HL7 v2 Platform for Standards Development and Testing
- Conformance Testing of Healthcare Data Exchange Standards for EHR Certification
- An Interoperability Test Bed for Distributed Healthcare Applications
- Understanding Meaningful Use with a Focus on Testing the HL7 V2 Messaging Standards
- Principles for Profiling Healthcare Data Communication Standards
- Testing Environments for Assessing Conformance and Interoperability
- A Framework for Testing Distributed Healthcare Applications
- Conformance Testing and Interoperability: A Case Study in Healthcare Data Exchange
- Dynamically Generating Conformance Tests for Messaging Systems
- Selecting Effective Test Messages
- Towards Interoperable Healthcare Information Systems: The HL7 Conformance Profile Approach
- Computer (Nov 2012) includes article "Testing the Nation's Healthcare Information Infrastructure: NIST Perspective"
Presentations
- VA Health Systems Interoperability Training Program
- NIST HL7 v2 Immunization Test Suite Overview
- NIST Healthcare Testing Infrastructure Overview - part 1 of 3 (Introduction)
- NIST Healthcare Testing Infrastructure Overview - part 2 of 3 (Conformance Testing Tools)
- NIST Healthcare Testing Infrastructure Overview - part 3 of 3 (End-to-end Testing Platform)
- NIST Healthcare Testing Infrastructure Overview - Background (HL7 v2, Conformance, Interoperability)
- Advancing HL7 v2 to New Heights
- Conformance, Interoperability, and Testing of Healthcare IT Standards
- HL7 v2 Conformance and Testing
- NIST_Tutorial: Foundations of Interoperability
- A Platform for Developing Specifications, Test Plans, and Testing Tools
- Interoperability Testing and Certification
Videos
- NIST Healthcare Testing Infrastructure Overview - part 1 of 3 (Introduction)
- NIST Healthcare Testing Infrastructure Overview - part 2 of 3 (Conformance Testing Tools)
- NIST Healthcare Testing Infrastructure Overview - part 3 of 3 (End-to-end Testing Platform)
- NIST Healthcare Testing Infrastructure Overview - Background (HL7 v2, Conformance, Interoperability)
- The History and Current Use of the NIST Immunization Test Suite (April 11, 2022)
- NIST Hl7 v2 Immunization Test Suite (Demo)
- NIST Implementation Guide and Authoring Tool - IGAMT (Demo)
Product Briefs
- NIST Development Platform for HL7v2
- NIST Implementation Guide Authoring and Managment Tool (IGAMT)
- NIST Test Case Authoring and Management Tool (TCAMT)
- NIST General Validation Tool (GVT)
- NIST Syndromic Surveillance Test Suite
- NIST Immunization Test Suite Overview
- NIST Immunization HL7 v2 Test Suite
- NIST Immunization WSDL Test Suite
- NIST Forecasting for Immunization Test Suite (FITS)
- Improving Immunization Information Systems