“’Fail. Fail often, fail fast, and learn.’ That’s the philosophy for Mary Kratz, the executive vice president of the Interoperability Institute (IOI), as she and her organization wraps up a simulation session to test widespread interoperability through HL7 FHIR implementation.”
“At the 2021 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) HL7 FHIR Connectathon, healthcare stakeholders convened to test HL7 FHIR Implementation Guides and Reference Implementations to understand how they can tackle current health interoperability challenges.”
“At the Connectathon, stakeholders leveraged IOI’s open-source sandbox offering, MELD, to test HL7 FHIR resources for various use cases, including social determinants of health data exchange, patient access application programming interfaces (APIs), and payer to payer data exchange.”
“Kratz told EHRIntelligence in an interview that IOI preloaded the cloud-based sandbox offering with what the HL7 community refers to as ‘test data.'”
“These data sets are created through machine learning and AI-methods to emulate real world data so stakeholders can simulate the various use cases.”
“Kratz noted that IOI’s offering went off without a hitch, allowing stakeholders to assess their health IT’s interoperability potential in a simulated environment.”
“’We were excited that the MELD Sandbox worked seamlessly,’ she said. ‘The users that were on it and utilizing it for the Connectathon activities didn’t have any major issues. It was also really nice to see that our synthetic test data complimented the activities that were underway with the community to advance and further interoperability. We were just delighted to be able to contribute those resources…'” Read the full article here.
Source: Interoperability, HL7 FHIR Testing Sandbox Offers Place to Explore – By Hannah Nelson, August 13, 2021. EHR Intelligence.
