HealthIT Answers June 1, 2021
By John Bender, ONC
To promote and support the consistent development and implementation of the Health Level Seven (HL7®) International® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) standard and associated implementation guides, ONC launched the Inferno testing suite a few years back. Inferno supports the ONC Health IT Certification Program through a set of streamlined tests for software services seeking to meet the requirements of the 2015 Edition Cures Update’s “Standardized API for Patient and Population Services certification criterion” and also includes a “community” aspect to it, which anyone working with FHIR implementation guides can use to collaborate with ONC to develop and contribute tests.
This past fall, a group of graduate students in Georgia Tech’s Online Master of Science in Computer...