Touchstone is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Testing as a Service (TaaS) Open Access Solution for health information exchange. Touchstone strives to live up to its dictionary definition - a criterion for determining the quality or genuineness of a thing - by offering thousands of tests in an easy-to-use system for determining a test system's conformance and interoperability against published specifications, standards, and profiles, including templates and implementation guides.

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  • allows for automated, internet-based interoperability FHIR Testing against the HL7 FHIR specifications and standards.
  • tests interoperability with other FHIR Server and FHIR Client implementations.
  • has been engineered from the ground up to leverage the new FHIR TestScript resource.
  • is a blend between Test-Driven-Development (TDD) methodologies and Natural Language Processing (NLP) test scripts.
  • has been featured at HL7 FHIR Connectathons and is being leveraged in a continuous testing environment by numerous leading HL7 FHIR implementers.
  • plays an active role in the HL7 Conformance Testing community, the HL7 Argonaut Project, and the HSPC Implementation community.
Features include...
  • self-registration of user accounts and organizations.
  • ability for users to execute FHIR test scripts against test systems with Touchstone serving as the initiator of message exchanges.
  • ability for users to initiate message exchanges from their test systems against other peer test systems with Touchstone FHIR testing tool serving as the intermediary.
  • ability to drill down to individual operations and assertions in test execution results during FHIR Testing.
  • ability to save configured sets of test scripts as named "test setups" for re-execution.
  • controlled access to test scripts, test systems, and test results at the user, organization, and organization group levels.
Touchstone Updates
  • TestScript Release NEW Feb 9, 2024
    • Patient Access API Certification Tests for Clinical Data, corrected asserts in MedicationRequest testscript for history interactions to be set to warning level.
    • Patient Access API Certification Tests for Clinical Data, corrected a typo in the MedicationRequest testscripts.
    • Da Vinci PCT TestScripts corrected test fixtures for use with updated IG profiles.
    • Da Vinci HREX TestScripts version 0.2.0 marked Inactive as the functionality is out of date.
    • Da Vinci Notifications TestScripts, updated test fixtures to match current IG profiles.
    • Da Vinci HREX IG Package, updated to current version 1.0.0.
    • Da Vinci IG Suites, updated several to inactivate older versions and activate newer versions to align with recent IG publications.
    • CARIN BlueButton TestScripts corrected CapabilityStatement tests to remove authorization.
  • Touchstone 6.2.1 Released Jan 23, 2024
    • For a list of Enhancements and Bug Fixes, please visit the Release Notes page in our Touchstone Docs
  • TestScript Release Jan 12, 2024
    • Updated and published the Connectation 35 track testscripts. They can be found at FHIR4-0-1-Connectathon35 in Test Definitions
    • Da Vinci PAS Capability TestScripts, updated to account for more than one SupportedProfile
    • Da Vinci PAS Subscriptions TestScripts, updated to fix the canonical url for Subscription Topic in fixtures
    • Da Vinci PAS IG package updated
    • FAST Security TestScripts added to Verify UDAP client registration with a server request and response conformity, test RS256 full workflow, JWT additional key field validation
  • TestScript Release Jan 8, 2024
    • Da Vinci CDEX TestScripts corrected descriptions
    • Da Vinci CRD TestScript, updated to include CRD IG version numbering in test folder structure
    • FAST Security TestScripts added to Verify UDAP metadata is conformant, test Client discovers UDAP metadata from server's well-known endpoint
  • Touchstone 6.2.0 Released Dec 18, 2023
    • For a list of Enhancements and Bug Fixes, please visit the Release Notes page in our Touchstone Docs
  • TestScript Release Sep 7, 2023
    • Da Vinci Prior Authorization (PAS) TestScripts, updated TestScripts to align with STU1.2 content
  • TestScript Release Sep 5, 2023
    • Da Vinci CDEX TestScripts, updated TestScripts to align with version 2.1.0 content, including Questionnaires Attachments scripts
    • Da Vinci CRD Testscripts updated to include support for all CRD IG CDS Hooks
    • Updated and published the Connectation 34 track testscripts. They can be found at FHIR4-0-1-Connectathon34 in Test Definitions
    • Patient Access API Certification Tests for Bulk Data, corrected validation testscript asserts for CarePlan to correctly query CarePlan resources
    • Patient Access API Certification Tests for Clinical Data, corrected asserts in MedicationRequest testscript for _history operation to be set to warning level
    • Patient Access API Certification Tests for Clinical Data, updated the CapabilityStatement testscript to identify and test versioned supportedProfiles
  • Touchstone 6.1.1 Released Aug 16, 2023
    • For a list of Enhancements and Bug Fixes, please visit the Release Notes page in our Touchstone Docs
  • TestScript Release Jul 11, 2023
    • Da Vinci Member Attribution TestScripts, adjusted TestScripts to align with STU2 ballot update content
    • Da Vinci Plan-Net TestScripts, added optional TestScripts for minimum resources returned and validation of referenced resources
    • Patient Access API Certification Tests for Plan-Net, added required TestScripts for minimum resources returned and validation of referenced resources
    • HL7 Austria Hackathon TestScripts, updated the Patient All tests to use unique resource ids to avoid testing conflicts
  • Touchstone 6.1.0 Released Jun 27, 2023
    • For a list of Enhancements and Bug Fixes, please visit the Release Notes page in our Touchstone Docs