Drummond’s G10 FHIR® API+ Certification Program is powered by AEGIS Touchstone FHIR® test tool as alternative to Inferno
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – July 7, 2022 – Drummond Group’s alternative test method for the 170.315(g)(10) Standardized API for patient and population services criterion within the 21st Century Cures Final Rule was approved today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). ONC’s approval of Drummond’s 170.315(g)(10) conformance test suites on the AEGIS.net Touchstone FHIR® test tool and developer platform gives health IT developers two options for the ONC certification of the criterion: (1) Drummond G10 FHIR® API+ powered by Touchstone or (2) certification using the Inferno test tool.
This newly approved ONC alternative test method is part of Drummond’s comprehensive FHIR testing and certification program that spans across regulatory requirements from ONC and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as well as sub-regulatory FHIR® use cases in various states of industry adoption.
This comprehensive FHIR® certification program has been built to test at scale and ensure conformance to nationally published standards and is hosted in a private IaaS Cloud for testing purposes. The platform enables the community to dynamically build, publish and calibrate basic to complex test cases for client or server message exchanges, including workflow type scenarios (peer-to-peer and multi-actor) using the HL7 FHIR Testing Infrastructure specification and associated FHIR resources like FHIR TestScript
“ONC’s approval of Drummond’s alternative test method represents the culmination of more than a year’s worth of collaborations between these organizations,” said Ryan Patano, Drummond’s president. “Our strategic alliance with AEGIS as a technology partner and its Touchstone FHIR® testing platform is the cornerstone of our comprehensive health IT FHIR® certification offerings. The adoption of FHIR® continues to increase as one of the key technologies in health data exchange and interoperability.”
The Drummond G10 FHIR® API+ alternative testing method for (g)(10) will provide health IT developers with an advantage toward meeting ONC’s end-of-year deadlines for certification of the 170.315(g)(10) criterion.
As an independent and trusted partner providing industry and technical expertise to ensure compliance and interoperability for two decades, Drummond is an Authorized Certification Body (ACB) and an Accredited Test Lab (ATL) within the ONC Health IT Certification Program. In this capacity, Drummond has certified more than 3,200 health information technology (health IT) products and specializes in working with developers to test and/or certify their software for use by healthcare providers in regulatory programs.
For more information about Drummond’s FHIR® certification offerings, including this new ONC-approved alternative test method for (g)(10), contact FHIR@drummondgroup.com