Conformance and Guidance for Implementation/Testing
Note: during the May2007 WGM the Implementation Committee and the Conformance SIG will jointly petition the TSC to become a new TC. See draft ImpConf Mission and Charter and Actions for ImpConf merger.
The HL7 Implementation committee supports HL7 members and other users of HL7 (draft) standard specifications, with the identification and resolution of issues related to successful implementation thereof.
This Wiki is used to develop an implementation FAQ, as well as a place to maintain and evolve ideas that have been discussed in committee. Formal minutes and agendas will still be maintained and posted to the HL7.org website - with this space providing for a more fluid development of content, where meeting notes will be fleshed out beyond what may heve been said in the meeting, and then used as the basis for other documents. The page history can be used to see what has been added since a particular meeting.
Contents
Reminders of implementation issues that need fixing
- The HL7StandardVersionCode vocabulary domain contains nonsensical values. The value set is maintained by the Pubs committee so they'll need to fix this.
Documents Maintained by Implementation Committee
- Implementation FAQ
- Test Cases
- Implementer Workshops
Documents maintained by other committees
The following documents may be of interest / relevance to implementers, and you are encouraged to read / review / correct / improve them
Testing Facilities
- NIST has installed a testserver for conformance testing of the POLB_IN111100 interaction (using May 2006 schema). E-mail your order message to v3receiver@gmail.com and it will respond with a one or more v3 interactions.
External documents
- Example implementation guide
- IHE PIX-PDQ v3 Profile (english)
- Examples:
- CDA Release 2, see [1] (10 Mb) for a collection of CDA R2 examples, stylesheets and implementation guides. Examples from various realms.
- Normative Edition 2006 examples and schema, see NE2006 Examples. The examples include examples from multiple Realms for multiple domains (e.g. Patient Admin, Lab, Medical Records)
- May2006 Ballot schema and schema, see German Realm May2006 Examples. Most examples are related to Patient Registries or Financial Coverage. Some schema have been constrained to fit the requirements of the German realm.
- NICTIZ (AORTA) schema and examples (mostly based on ballot 7), see Dutch Realm Ballot7 Examples. Most examples are related to PA, Pharmacy, Patient Care.
- "Navigating the pitfalls: Implementing HL7 version 3", edited by Rene Spronk, see Ringholm whitepaper. The contents have been included in the Implementation FAQ.
