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The previous chapters described various approaches for models, frameworks, and architectures to support conformance and interoperability testing. This chapter provides an overview of tool instantiations. Many tools exist in the industry that provide testing capabilities related to the healthcare data exchange standards discussed in this book. A representative set of these tools is provided here. The tools in some fashion employ the concepts presented previously. When applicable, a link between the methodology used and the tool is given. Some of the production tools presented are used as part of testing and certification programs. In some cases tools are presented in detail, while in others a brief overview is given. The intent is not to provide an exhaustive catalogue and explanation of the tools, rather it is to provide a survey of the tooling landscape. The conformance testing concepts that were discussed in previous chapters are in many cases embodied in these tools.

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Notes

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    Schematron is a schema language that allows implementers to express rules and check an XML document against those rules.

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    Note: some of the CDA-based specification validation for ONC are supported by non-NIST tooling.

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  1. Deutsche Telekom Healthcare and Security Solutions GmbH, Mülheim, Germany

    Frank Oemig

  2. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

    Robert Snelick

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Oemig, F., Snelick, R. (2016). Testing Tools. In: Healthcare Interoperability Standards Compliance Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44839-8_14

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