Introduction

The Touchstone Project is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Testing as a Service (TaaS) Open Access Solution for health information exchange. Touchstone offers over 50,000 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.

The Touchstone Project…

– allows for automated, internet-based interoperability 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 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 and the HL7 Accelerator Program communities.

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 serving as the intermediary.

– ability to drill down to individual operations and assertions in test execution results.

– 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.