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Healthcare Interoperability & Standards

Test-driven Standards Development?

Many in the development community are familiar with the concept of Test-Driven Development (TDD), which, briefly, is based on the practice of writing test cases that define the boundaries of your software component, and then writing the minimal component necessary to satisfy those test cases. It aims to: ensure a robust test suite for automated testing, allowing …

Work With Healthcare IT Standards, Don’t Work Around Them

I started this as a response to a comment on my recent LinkedIn post about joining the HL7 Canada Council. But I’m apparently too verbose for LinkedIn, so we’re here instead. If you’re interested in getting involved in healthcareIT standards, don’t hesitate. Many people think of IT standards as something that is static or “finished” or …

Automating Github FHIR Implementation Guide Builds

I have been working on a HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide for COVID-19 Case Reporting for an organization with a contract with the World Health Organization (WHO). Because of the distributed nature of the work (this being 2020, and all), we’re keeping the source for the Implementation Guide (IG) in GitHub. I got the build process …