Projectathon is a testing session dedicated to a specific deployment project
Projectathon uses a set of IHE Profiles in their interoperability specifications. They are organised by specifications under development or specifications focused on a limited realm (national/regional). The Projectathon outcome is not a conformance stamp of approval for products; the intent is to accelerate product development, bring developers and implementers together, and help identify and bridge difficult conditions in specification development that have the potential of becoming insurmountable and could bethreats to clinical and business workflows.
1. REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION
pre-set and training
2. PRE-PROJECTATHON TESTINGvalidation with platforms
3. PROJECTATHON
live testing and simulator
IHE-Catalyst role
IHE-Catalyst actively supports Projectathons: it enables, promotes, and activates them by engaging with communities, managing, and developing these events.
Catalyst participates in the testing sessions, provides resources like technical expertise and testing tools, collaborates to address interoperability challenges, and implements improvements based on the feedback received.
Through Projectathons, Catalyst collects market issues and conveys them to IHE International, supporting the process of creating profiles with universal aims/validation and making use of testing systems. The primary goal is to resolve market issues and enhance industry interoperability.
The benefits for stakeholders
- Timesaving for vendors during testing and for users during field deploymen
- Cost-saving for vendors with on-the-fly corrections
- Increased levels of user confidence,
- Reduced risksfor both users and vendors
- Improved operational efficiency for enhanced patient care.
Projectathons accelerate each publisher’s solution development, with on-site support from the Agency’s interoperability experts.They offer a valuable opportunity for the Agency to refine testing tools, meet with fellow vendors, and enable users to agree on their needs, while expediting the validation process and addressing issues or errors on the spot.
Projectathons and Connectathons
A Projectathon is a peer-to-peer testing event organized by a “project” testing draws on IHE Connectathon experience the interoperability specifications are those of a national, regional or other project, which are “localizations” of IHE integration profiles that take into account additional local requirements and constraints
Projectathons usually incorporate muti-actors and multi-transactions sequences that map real life health information exchange peculiar to a project
Projectathons build on and expand the same testing tools as those used in IHE Connectathons
