This page is now out-of-date. If you are looking for information about the January 2018 Connectathon, click here.
IHE USA welcomes your participation in the North American Connectathon 2017. This page points you to the resources you need to prepare and succeed! Registration is open in gazelle Sep 12 - Oct 7, 2016.
Contract submission and payment are due at the close of registration. That means you have to generate the contract and make payment by October 7, 2016. This is a different policy from previous years. If you have questions, please contact the IHE USA sponsors: connectathon@ihe.net
Gazelle Connectathon Test Management |
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Participation Checklist |
Participant Checklist |
Registration |
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IHE Technical Frameworks, Consolidated CDA |
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Schedule and LogisticsSchedule, fees, payment, badges, hotel, shipping info ... |
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Pre-Connectathon |
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Technical Resources |
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Targeted Resources |
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Training Material / Webex Presentations |
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Communication (email addresses, email lists) |
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Miscellaneous |
FAQ's |
Connectathon Technical Project Manager (Steve Moore)Use the email address at the right for any kind of Connectathon technical support question. Your email will be entered into a Jira tracking system |
naconnectathon.helpdesk@gmail.com |
IHE USA Connectathon Management and Logistics |
connectathon@ihe.net |
Domain Technical Project Managers (by Last Name)Contact a Domain Technical Project Manager if your question is specific to a profile in a particular domain. |
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Paul Dow+ Cardiology |
pdow@acc.org |
Lynn Felhofer+ IT Infrastructure + Quality, Research and Public Health + Radiology |
felhofer.lynn@gmail.com |
Steve Moore+ Patient Care Coordination + Consolidated CDA testing |
naconnectathon.helpdesk@gmail.com |
Eric Poiseau+ Anatomic Pathology + Laboratory + Pharmacy |
eric.poiseau@inria.fr |
Paul Sherman+ Patient Care Devices |
paulrshermancce@gmail.com |
Connectathon Technical Project Manager (Steve Moore)Use the email address at the right for any kind of Connectathon technical support question. Your email will be entered into a Jira tracking system |
naconnectathon.helpdesk@gmail.com |
IHE USA Connectathon Management and Logistics |
connectathon@ihe.net |
Domain Technical Project Managers (by Last Name)Contact a Domain Technical Project Manager if your question is specific to a profile in a particular domain. |
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Paul Dow+ Cardiology |
pdow@acc.org |
Lynn Felhofer+ IT Infrastructure + Quality, Research and Public Health + Radiology |
felhofer.lynn@gmail.com |
Steve Moore+ Patient Care Coordination + Consolidated CDA testing |
naconnectathon.helpdesk@gmail.com |
Eric Poiseau+ Anatomic Pathology + Laboratory + Pharmacy |
eric.poiseau@inria.fr |
Paul Sherman+ Patient Care Devices |
paulrshermancce@gmail.com |
Prepare your system to test at the Connectathon. Find configuration, IP address, OIDs and other network information here.
An important Connectathon preparation task for December is to share configuration parameters for your test system (ports, URLs...).
Configuration entry is a two-step process prior to the Connectathon. We want you to spend your time at the Connectathon working on interoperability issues and not asking your neighbor, "What is the URL of your Repository?"
Gazelle assigns you default parameters based on the profiles & actors you signed up to test. Your task is to update those to actual parameter for your test system and marked them 'Approved'. This is done in gazelle under menu Configuration-->System Configuration.
Hostnames: Each test system in gazelle is given a hostname. You can allocate additional hostnames for your systems if you need them. IP addresses will be assigned to hostnames shortly before the Connectathon.
The gazelle proxy: The config/ports for the gazelle proxy are shown on the gazelle configuration page in red font. There is separate training provided about use of the gazelle proxy.
Many systems need OIDs as part of their configuration (Patient ID Sources, XDS Source & Repositories, homeCommunityIDs, others...). These are assigned in gazelle under menu Configuration-->OIDs for current session.
Any questions about configuration parameters should be sent to Lynn Felhofer (...after you have viewed the training ;-) )
There is a a new Gazelle in town. The training for this has changed.
The connectathon network is the backbone for our interoperability testing. Please read this before arriving in Cleveland: NetworkDescription2017.pdf
Contact Us! Get help when you need it.
The following table contains new supplements that are published for the first time. We include only those supplements that have been published after January 2016.
We purposely omit supplements that have been re-published.
Cardiology |
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IT Infrastructure |
Advanced Patient Privacy Consents (APPC) |
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
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Patient Care Coordination |
Bed Management (BED) |
Patient Care Coordination |
Cross-Enterprise Cardiovascular Heart Team Workflow Definition (XCHT-WD) |
Patient Care Coordination |
Dynamic Care Plan (DCP) |
Patient Care Devices |
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Pharmacy |
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Quality, Research, Public Health |
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Radiology |
Radiation Exposure Monitoring for Nuclear Medicine (REM-NM) |
This is a resource page for an event that is complete. Please do not assume any information on this page is current.
Bookmark this page for easy access to resources used to support your Connectathon testing.
Mon, Jan 23, 2017 | 7:30 am - 4:00 pm EST | On-site check-in / badge pickup |
Mon, Jan 23, 2017 | 7:30 am - 10:00 am | Connectathon Participant system set-up |
Mon, Jan 23, 2017 | 10:00 am - 5:30 pm | Connectathon Test Session 1 |
Tue, Jan 24, 2017 | 9:00 am - 5:30 pm | Connectathon Test Session 2 |
Wed, Jan 25, 2017 | 9:00 am - 5:30 pm | Connectathon Test Session 3 |
Thu, Jan 26, 2017 | 9:00 am - 5:30 pm | Connectathon Test Sesson 4 |
Fri, Jan 27, 2017 | 8:00 am - noon | Connectathon Teset Session 5: Hard stop at noon |
Participants with a valid badge will have access to the Connectathon Floor...
There is no support from volunteer monitors or technical management outside of the daily Testing Sessions; during after-hours, they will be preparing for the next day.
The Connectathon venue makes oral announcements impractical.
Please check your email at 9am and 1:30pm each day. We will send twice-daily "need to know" announcements to the na_connectathon email list.
-- Seating assignments - There are two tabs in this spreadsheet. On the first tab, each cell represents one table with two chairs; table locations are identified by a letter/number, eg L28. The second tab shows seating assignments sorted by Organization.
-- Connectathon floor plan
Wireless / PCD Testers
Gazelle on-site: http://ihe.wustl.edu/gazelle-na
Outside of Connectathon floor, URL remains the same: http://ihe.wustl.edu/gazelle-na/home.seam
We hope you've already reviewed the 10 Connectathon Tips from the Pros.
Monday 7:30-10am is for system set-up. After 10am, we expect you to perform testing. Here is guidance on goals to accomplish during Monday's testing session:
IHE USA staff - Help desk
Network staff - (C18)
Tool help - see next section
Steve Moore - (K28)
Eric Poiseau - (K27)
Lynn Felhofer - (K25)
Paul Sherman - (L18)
Training material on various tools is here: http://gazelle.ihe.net/training#ToolTraining
Tool errata - as we find issues with tools, we will document them here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oNVe8_L7_ll20bCrG--lqlVeIab0cMTEMl8qADhprtk/pubhtml
The tools listed in the first table below are considered an integral part of Connectathon testing. These tools are referenced in Connectathon tests and are part of the test procedure.
Tool | Used for | Location / Config info | Support |
Gazelle Itself |
Test Management |
Eric (K27) | |
Gazelle Security Suite |
- Home of ATNA Questionnaires - TLS client / server simulator - ATNA Audit message validator - Syslog collector (ARR simulator) |
Cedric (K26) | |
CDA Validation (several) |
PCC, QRPH and C-CDA Testing |
Steve (K28) |
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DICOM Central Archive |
Archive for DICOM objects |
GUI front-end: http://central-archive.ihe-us-test.net:8080/dcm4chee-web3/ password: admin/admin (to add your AE title so the archive will accept your association) IP addr / port: 10.242.128.43 / 11112 AET: DCM4CHEE |
Steve (K28) |
Gazelle EVS Client |
Home page |
Eric (K27) |
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DICOM validators (DCCHECK, dcm4che, Dicom3Tools, Pixelmed-REM, dcmcheck) |
Eric (K27) |
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HL7v2 validator HL7v3 validator |
Eric (K27) | ||
PDF/A validator (XDS-SD) |
Eric (K27) |
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XDW validator |
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Gazelle proxy |
message capture/validation (non-TLS) |
Eric (K27) |
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Gazelle Order Manager |
Is the DSS/OF for CARD & RAD profiles: --DICOM Modality Worklist SCP for RAD & CARD modalities --RAD-13 sender for RAD & CARD Image Managers Watch this short "how to" video |
Cedric (K26) | |
Gazelle Patient Manager |
Is the Patient Demographics Supplier and Patient Encounter Supplier in the PAM Profilfe |
Cedric (K26) | |
NIST HL7 v2.x |
For QRPH VRDR HL7 messages |
Rob S (M28) |
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Patient Generation and Sharing |
--Preload patients for PIX/PDQ/XDS... --HL7v2 and V3 Patient ID Feed --Choose a patient to initiate creation of a RAD/CARD modality worklist in Order Manager |
Gazelle Test Management: menu Connectathon-->Patient Generation and Sharing |
Lynn (L25) |
PCD Tools |
PCD Message Validation |
John (L17) |
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SAML STS |
SAML assertion provider - XUA and SeR testing |
Cedric (K26) |
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XDS Tools |
XD* profile testing |
- Endpoints for the XDS Public Registry - Red, Green, and Blue - are on: http://nist1:9080/ - XDS Registry Dashboard: from the toolkit home page, select Connectathon Tools --> Dashboard |
Bill (J28) |
XDS Toolkit 2017 |
Bill (J28) |
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XDS-I Tools 2017 |
For testing XDS-I and XCA-I implementations. Uses the NIST XDS Toolkit directly |
Steve (K28) |
The tools listed in the table below are considered as backups or possibly experimental.
Backup: Tool is available if someone needs to review/resolve an issue by using one of our tools. These are not part of the defined testing protocol.
Experimental: A tool is in development. We may ask you for your help in running a few tests to examine the behavior of our testing software.
Tool | Status | Used for | Location / Config info | Support |
Gazelle EVS / HPD validator | Backup | x () | ||
Gazelle EVS / DSUB validator | Backup | xxx() | ||
Gazelle EVS / WADO validator (XDS-I.b) | Backup | xxx() | ||
Gazelle XDStar Client | Backup | () | ||
RFD Simulator | Experimental | RFD based profiles | http://rfd-test-tools | Ralph (J22) |
XCA Tools | Experimental | XCA testing | Beta testing: Conformity Assessment | Bill (J28) |
Welcome! We gather resources here for our extraordinary volunteer monitors.
Note this page is now out-of-date. NA2018 Connectathon info is here |
Table of Contents
Mon Jan 23, 11:00-11:30 am | Monitors arrive at the Cleveland Convention Center and pick up badges at registration desk outside the Grand Ballroom. |
Monday 11:30 am |
Monitor welcome/orientation meeting. Meeting Room 21 on the Exhibit Floor level, adjacent to the Registration/Check-in. |
Monday noon - 1:00 pm | Lunch -- get to know your monitor colleagues. Participants will be having lunch, too. |
Monday 1:00 - 1:30 pm | Monitors find their table on the Connectathon floor and get hooked up to the network. |
Monday 1:30 - 5:30 pm |
Connectathon testing session. Monitors start work on test verification. |
AFTER HOURS ACCESS: Monitors and participants with a valid badge will have access to the Connectathon Floor... -- mornings starting at 7:30 am No re-entry is permitted after 9pm. Everyone must leave the test floor at 11pm. There is no support from volunteer monitors or technical management outside of the daily Testing Sessions; during after-hours, they will be preparing for the next day. |
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Tue, Wed, Thurs 9 am-5:30 pm |
Connectathon testing sessions / test verification. |
Tues 6:30-9:30 pm | Social Event for Connectathon participants and monitors at Punch Bowl Social in The Flats of Downtown Cleveland. |
Fri Jan 27 8 am-noon |
- Final Connectathon testing session. - Connectathon ends promptly at noon. |
AFTER CONNECTATHON--> |
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Feb 10 | If you did not request advance per diem by Dec 5, then send your post-event per diem form to jmyers@himss.org. |
Off-site & on-site (same as before the Connectathon): http://ihe.wustl.edu/gazelle-na/home.seam
Monitor profile assignments are in this google spreadsheet.
We organize IHE profiles into "clusters" with common characteristics, and then we assign monitors to evaluate tests in one "cluster" (perhaps two). The google spreadsheet contains the first draft of monitor assignments. We try to assign you to profiles that match your expertise. We hope that some assignments allow you to learn something new. In fact, each monitor has the capability to evaluate tests in almost any profile.
There are three tabs in the spreadsheet:
IHE USA staff - Help desk
Network staff - (C18)
Tool help - see next section
Lynn Felhofer - (K25)
Steve Moore - (K28)
Eric Poiseau - (K27)
Paul Sherman - (L18)
See: https://gazelle.ihe.net/content/na-connectathon-2017-week-resources#Tools
(we document the tool list in one place -- on the vendor's information page)
Training material on various tools is here: http://gazelle.ihe.net/training#ToolTraining
BEFORE CONNECTATHON--> | |
Nov 17 | Complete Monitor Travel Survey. See Jeremiah's email for details. |
Dec 2 | Complete and return Non-Disclosure and Conflict of Interest forms. Send to jmyers@himss.org. |
Dec 5 | Book airfare (if applicable). Refer to the Monitor Travel Guide. Monitors must arrange through Innovative Travel. |
Dec 5 | Register for your Monitor badge. You will receive an invitation via email with registration link. |
Dec 5 | Request advance per diem. Send per diem form to jmyers@himss.org.
(Alternatively, submit post-event per diem form by Feb 10, 2017.) |
Jan 11, 10-11am CST |
Connectathon Monitors - Preparation & Process Webinar: |
Mon Jan 16, 3:00 CST |
Media Cluster Profile Overview Link to recording (18 min) |
Mon Jan 16, 4:00 CST |
Mobile Cluster Profile Overview Link to recording (47 min) |
Tue Jan 17, 10:00 CST |
RFD Cluster Profile Overview Link to recording (30 min) |
Tue Jan 17, noon CST |
Security Cluster Profile Overview Link to recording (32 min) |
Tue Jan 17, 4:00 CST |
XDS Cluster Profile Overview Link to recording (34 min) |
Wed Jan 18, 10:00 CST |
XC* Cross-Community Cluster Profile Overview Link to recording (43 min) |
Wed Jan 18, 1:00 CST |
RAD-WF Radiology Workflow Cluster Profile Overview Link to recording (34 min) |
Wed Jan 18, 3:00 CST |
RAD-Web Cluster Profile Overview Link to recording (20 min) |
Sun, Jan 22, 2:05 CST |
Packers vs. Falcons -- NCF Championship Game |
CONNECTATHON WEEK--> | |
Mon Jan 23, 11:00-11:30 am | Monitors arrive at the Cleveland Convention Center and pick up badges at registration desk. |
Monday 11:30 am |
Monitor welcome/orientation meeting. Meeting Room 21 on the Exhibit Floor level, adjacent to the Registration/Check-in. |
Monday noon - 1:00 pm | Lunch -- get to know your monitor colleagues. Participants will be having lunch, too. |
Monday 1:00 - 1:30 pm | Monitors find their table on the Connectathon floor and get hooked up to the network. |
Monday 1:30 - 5:30 pm |
Connectathon testing session. Monitors start work on test verification. |
Tue, Wed, Thurs 9 am-5:30 pm |
Connectathon testing sessions / test verification. |
Tues 6:30-9:30 pm | Social Event for Connectathon participants and monitors at Punch Bowl Social in The Flats of Downtown Cleveland. |
Fri Jan 27 8 am-noon |
- Final Connectathon testing session. - Connectathon ends promptly at noon. |
AFTER CONNECTATHON--> |
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Feb 10 | If you did not request advance per diem by Dec 5, then send your post-event per diem form to jmyers@himss.org. |
http://ihe.wustl.edu/gazelle-na/home.seam
The specifications we test at the Connectathon are contained in IHE Technical Framework documentation. IHE publishes its Technical Framework documents, organized by domain, on the Technical Framework page of ihe.net.
Each IHE domain's Technical Framework is segmented into multiple volumes; Volume 1 contains the use cases the profile addresses, the process flow and a diagram of the actors & transactions in the profiles. The technical details of the transactions are not in Volume 1, and as a monitor, you do not need to be an expert at that level. If you are reading a Trial Implementation Supplement, you will see that the contents are separated into Volume 1 and Volume 2 within the supplement.
If you have time prior to the Connectathon, we recommend you read the chapter in Technical Framework "Volume 1" for the profiles you are assigned to evaluate.
If you are not familiar with IHE documentation, we recommend you view the "Interpreting the IHE Technical Framework" video in the training section below before you read the documentation.
The Monitor Assignments Spreadsheet contains cluster-specific preparation & training material. See the Cluster-Proiflies tab. Each cluster contains links to the availlable preparation material for monitors.
Audience
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New monitors |
Interpreting the IHE Technical Framework (Streaming link) (.mp4) |
0:40 |
New monitors |
Connectathon Terminology: (Streaming link) (.mp4) |
0:11 |
All monitors |
Using gazelle to review Connectathon tests |
0:08 |
All monitors |
Connectathon monitor - process overview Gazelle walk-through |
Jan 11, 2017 10am CST
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All monitors |
Some profile 'clusters' have additional training material prepared by IHE Technical Project Managers. This content will become available from now into Jan 2017. Find it on the Cluster-Profiles tab of the monitor assignments google spreadsheet. |
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**optional** |
Some of you may be interested in the training material we compile for vendor participants, but monitors do not need to review it. We collect participants' material on this Training Page. |
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**optional** |
IHE 2016 Educational Webinar Series |
multiple presentations available; duration varies |
We have put together this FAQ with answers to questions we frequently receive from our vendor participants. You may find it informative.
This is a great welcome to new monitors captured on video. While it is was done by a SIIM board member at the beginning of Connectathon monitor training in 2009, his points about the benefits of your volunteer service stand true today. We invite you to watch this 5 minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=6SrkvyB1EPs
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2017_Monitor_Travel_Guide_Final.pdf | 636.5 KB |
IHE_NA_Connectathon_Mutual_Non-Disclosure_Agreement.docx | 66.29 KB |
IHE_USA-Conflict_of_Interest.docx | 103.28 KB |
CAT17_Table Assignments_Final_withMonitors.xls | 78 KB |
ConnectathonWeekProcessForMonitors-NA2017.pdf | 4.78 MB |