Bookmark this page for easy access to resources used to support your Connectathon testing.

• Testing schedule for the week
• Daily
• After-hours access
• Daily 'need to know' announcements
• Seating assignments
• Network information
• Network Description & "I need another fixed IP address!"
• Wireless
• Gazelle Test Management
• Guidance for Monday's session
• Assigned partners and assigned patients
• XDS, XDS-I, ATNA
• XCA, XCPD, XCA-I
• Ask questions. Get help.
• Tools - configuration, location & support

Testing schedule for the week

Daily:

Mon, Jan 20, 2020	8:00 am -  4:00 pm EST	On-site check-in / badge pickup
Mon, Jan 20, 2020	8:00 am - 10:00 am	Connectathon Participant system set-up
Mon, Jan 20, 2020	10:00 am -  5:30 pm	Connectathon Test Session 1
Tue, Jan 21, 2020	9:00 am -  5:30 pm	Connectathon Test Session 2
Wed, Jan 22, 2020	9:00 am -  5:30 pm	Connectathon Test Session 3
Thu, Jan 23, 2020	9:00 am -  5:30 pm	Connectathon Test Sesson 4
Fri, Jan 24, 2020	8:00 am -  noon	Connectathon Test Session 5: Hard stop at noon

 

After-hours access:

Participants with a valid badge will have access to the Connectathon Floor. There is a curfew time TBD.

Daily 'need to know' announcements

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

-- 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. You can use the spreadsheet now for a table location if you need to ship something or order services. Your table location will also be entered in Gazelle before the end of the calendar year (2018). This will show up for you and your partners as you are running tests.

Network Info

• NetworkDescription: Read the Connectathon Network Description before arriving in Cleveland
• Important DNS Information

Wireless / General

• SSID:  NA2020
• Password:  cleveland20

Wireless / PCD Testers

• SSID:  PCD
• Password:  provided on site

Gazelle Test Management

Gazelle on-site: https://gazelle.iheusa.org/gazelle-na

Outside of Connectathon floor, URL remains the same: https://gazelle.iheusa.org/gazelle-na

Guidance for Monday's session

We hope you've already reviewed the 10 Connectathon Tips from the Pros.

Monday 8:00-10am 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:

• Configure and connect to tools for your profiles.
• Complete the 5-minute Consistent Time "CT_Client" test
• Content Creators -- submit CDA/C-CDA docs into the samples area of gazelle for evaluation
• Modalities/Evidence Creators -- submit DICOM samples into gazelle and the Central Archive
• Submit media you create to the assigned Monitor -->  give XDM and PDI media to monitor Samantha Neiheisel at table M28.
• It is good practice to hand a monitor your media rather than just dropping it at the table.
• Any other tests labeled "*_Do_This_First" or "*_Read_This_First"
• In general, work on other no-peer tests.
• Then, move on to peer-to-peer tests.

Ask questions. Get help:

IHE USA staff - Help desk

• logistics, "I'm lost", shipping...

Network staff - (Separate table, just inside the balllroom)

Tool help - see section below

Dr. Phil - (C31)

• First & last resource for technical support.  Ask me anything.
• If I do not know, I will find someone who does.
• Gazelle help. Traditional Level 1 and Level 2 support.
• e.g. "I need to reset my password"
• Monitor support

Steve Moore - (K31)

• QRPH, PCC and C-CDA tests, test requirements & grading => support for participants and monitors.
• "I need to drop a profile/actor in QRPH or PCC"

Lynn Felhofer - (L28)

• ITI and Radiology tests, test requirements & grading => support for participants and monitors
• "I need to drop a profile/actor in RAD or ITI"

Anne-Gaëlle / Malo Toudic - (C28)

• Gazelle support. This is Level 3 support.

Paul Sherman - (H28)

• PCD tests, test requirements & grading => support for participants and monitors
• "I need to drop a profile/actor in PCD"

Assigned partners and assigned patients

For Document Sharing (XD*, XC*, MHD) profiles and ATNA, Connectathon Managers make some assignments to help manage testing.  First-time participants can read an overview of multiple affinity domains at Connectathons here. This section only applies to test systems in those profiles.

• Document sharing / multiple affinity domain testing:  See the Red, Green, Blue assignments for Registries & Gateways 
• Here are both the Document Source Patient Assignments and the XDS, XDS, XDS-I, ATNA: Tue-Wed-Assigned-Partners 
• Schedule for XCA, XCPD, XCDR, XCA-I on Tues Wed Thu (several tabs; read the 'Instructions' tab first)

See Lynn Felhofer (L28) with any questions about these assignments.

Tools - configuration, location & support

 

TOOLS DEPLOYED AT CONNECTATHON
Gazelle Test Management
Configuration	https://gazelle.iheusa.org/gazelle-na
Support	Malo (C28)
Summary	Overall test management during Connectathon.
Provider Organization	Kereval (IHE Europe)
Gazelle Proxy
Configuration	https:gazelle.iheusa.org/proxy Proxy is accessible at 10.242.128.41
Support	Malo (C28)
Summary	Captures messages exchanged between two test systems and enables message validation.  Applicable to messaging in all IHE profiles that do not require TLS communication.  When participants link proxy message in test instances, monitors can use the link to examine message content and (for some messages) call validators in EVSClient.
Documentation	Proxy overview for monitors Proxy training recording (.mp4) (targeted at participants) Proxy User Manual
Provider Organization	Kereval (IHE Europe)
Gazelle Security Suite (GSS)
Configuration	https://gazelle.ihe.net/gss
Support	Malo (C28)
Summary	Source of digital certificates for ATNA/TLS. Simulates an Audit Record Repository (syslog collector). Validates syslog audit records. TLS Simulators (client & server), including for new ATNA options. Home of the ‘ATNA Questionnaire’ for systems testing ATNA. SAML assertion provider for XUA.
Documentation	GSS "how to" recording for monitors (.mp4) GSS User Manual
Provider Organization	Kereval (IHE Europe)
Gazelle EVSClient
Configuration	https://gazelle.ihe.net/EVSClient
Support	Malo (C28)
Summary	Validators for HL7v2, v3 messages, CDA documents, & FHIR Resources. Multiple DICOM validators. Other validators: XDW, PDF/A, DSUB, HPD… When you validate a message from within the Gazelle Proxy or Gazelle Samples area, it calls validators within the EVSClient.
Documentation	User Manual
Provider Organization	Kereval (IHE Europe), with embedded validators provided by many organizations
Gazelle Patient Manager
Configuration	https://gazelle.ihe.net/PatientManager
Support	Anne-Gaëlle (C28)
Summary	Simulators for actors in PAM, PDQ*, PIX* are used by participants during pre-Connectathon testing; sometimes during Connectathon.  Source of test patients during Connectathon.    Connectathon tests *do not* call for monitors to use Patient Manager.
Documentation	User Manual
Provider Organization	Kereval (IHE Europe)
Gazelle Order Manager
Configuration	https://gazelle.ihe.net/OrderManager
Support	Anne-Gaëlle (C28)
Summary	Order Placer and Order Filler simulator in departmental workflow profiles; DICOM Modality Worklist provider (SCP) and HL7 order exchange. Simulators are used by participants in RAD and LAB during pre-Connectathon testing; sometimes at Connectathon, especially as a DICOM Modality worklist SCP
Documentation	Order Manager training slides User Manual Recording: how to use Order Manager to create Modality Worklist (.mp4)
Provider organization	Kereval (IHE Europe)
PCD Tools
Configuration	http://pcdtool:8080/pcdtool
Support	John (E7)
Summary	Used in PCD profile testing to validate one to one messages passing patient and device information. New functionality validates some detailed ACM profile content.
US ONC ETT for C-CDA
Configuration	https://ttpedge.sitenv.org/ttp/#/validators/ccdar2
Support	Steve Moore(K31)
Summary	Used to test C-CDA documents. Not for general CDA testing.
Provider Organization	NIST
PIX/PDQ and Vital Records Test Tools
Configuration
Support	Jungyub (M26)
Summary	Validators for PIXv2, PIXv2, PDQv2 and PDQv3 messages. Validation for Vital Records Death Reporting.
Documentation	on-line tool documentation
Provider organization	NIST
CDA Validation Tools
Support	Steve (K31)
Summary	For PCC, QRPH, and C-CDA testing
Documentation	IHE CDA Testing Procedure Overview
XDS Toolkit
Configuration	See details on the homepage for XDS and FHIR toolkit: >> On the Connectathon floor:   http://nist1:8080/ >> From outside: https://github.com/usnistgov/asbestos/wiki/CAT-Home
Support	Bill (J31) Sunil (J32)
Summary	Validates messages and simulates actors in document sharing profiles, eg XC*, XDS.  Specific tests contain instructions to use Toolkit to verify messages, or as a Doc Consumer simulator to perform queries against participants' tests systems.
Provider Organization	NIST
XDS-I Tools
Configuration	http://xds-imaging-tools:8080/toolkit
Support	Steve (K31)
Summary	For testing XDS-I and XCA-I implementations
Provider Organization	NIST, + Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (for XDS-I & XCA-I)
FHIR Read-Write Server (HAPI)
Configuration	Web GUI: http://fhir-read-write.ihe-us-test.net:8080/fhir Server base URL (R4): http://fhir-read-write:8080/fhir/baseR4   Server base URL (STU3):  http://fhir-read-write:8080/fhir/baseDstu3
Support	Steve (K31)
Summary	(1) Hosts the Connectathon patients as FHIR Patient Resources. These Patient Resources will be referenced by other Resources that are created/exchanged in peer-to-peer tests .  i.e. you will not reference a copy of this resource that resides on your server or that of your test partner.  (2) Hosts FHIR Resources that are test data for various IHE Profiles, e.g., mCDS, QEDm, MHD-SDC. (3) Participants can upload & validate FHIR Resources created by their systems.  -- -- Instructions are in Connectathon test '*_Resource_Check* for several profiles. (4) Participants that are FHIR clients will upload a FHIR CapabilityStatement for their test system onto this server, making them available to all participants and monitors.  Instructions are in test '01_DoThis1st_CapabilityStatement'
Provider Organization	HAPI Server deployed at Connectathon by Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
FHIR Toolkit
Configuration	See details on the homepage for XDS and FHIR toolkit: >> On the Connectathon floor:   http://nist1:8080/ >> From outside: https://github.com/usnistgov/asbestos/wiki/CAT-Home
Support	Bill (J31) Sunil (J32)
Summary	MHD profile testing
Documentation	Overview training recording
Provider Organization	NIST
DICOM Central Archive (dcm4chee)
Configuration	GUI front-end: http://central-archive:8080/dcm4chee-arc/ui2 login/password: admin/admin (to add your AE title so the archive will accept your association) IP addr / port: central-archive.ihe-us-test.net  /  11112 IP addr / port: 10.242.128.43  /  11112 AET: DCM4CHEE QIDO-RS: http://central-archive.ihe-us-test.net:8080/dcm4chee-arc/aets/CENTRAL/rs WADO-RS: http://central-archive.ihe-us-test.net:8080/dcm4chee-arc/aets/CENTRAL/rs
Support	Steve (K31)
Summary	Used as a commonly-accessible repository for DICOM objects.   Participants store their objects here.  Available to other participants via DICOM C-FIND, C-MOVE, QIDO-RS, and WADO-RS.  Monitors use the web-based GUI to verify that participants have stored their objects here.
Provider organization	dcm4che.org
Mitre Canary
Configuration	GUI front-end: http://central-archive:18080 Note: This is correct. We are running the canary tool on the same host as the Central Archive.
Support	Steve (K31)
Summary	Used to test VRDR/FHIR
Provider organization	Mitre
SAML STS
Configuration	https://gazelle.ihe.net/content/sts
Support	Malo (C28)
Summary	SAML assertion provider - XUA and SeR testing
Provider Organization	Kereval (IHE Europe)
IHE TEST TOOLS DEPLOYED OUTSIDE OF CONNECTATHON WEEK:
Index to IHE Test Tools:  https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/IHE_Test_Tool_Information

Welcome! We gather resources here for our extraordinary volunteer monitors.

Table of Contents

• Connectathon Week Resources
• Connectathon Week Schedule
• Gazelle link
• Monitors' Profile Assignments
• Seating chart
• Network Information
• Tools - on-site location, config & support
• Contact us. Get help
• Technical Preparation Resources
• Technical Specs:  IHE Technical Framework & C-CDA 2.1
• Monitor Training Material
• Nice video on the benefits of being a monitor
• Our Connectathon FAQ for vendor participants

 

Connectathon Week Resources

  >>Schedule for the week:

Monday Jan 20

• 11:00-11:30 - Arrive at Cleveland Convention Center, pick up your badge at the registration desk
• 11:30 - Monitor welcome meeting in Room 26A
• noon - Lunch!
• 1:00 - 1:30 - Find your table, get hooked to the network
• 1:30 - 5:30 - Test verification begins

Tueday Jan 21

• 9:00 - 5:30 - Connectathon testing session
• 6:30 - 9:30 - Social event
  

Wed & Thur Jan 22, 23

• 9:00 - 5:30 - Connectathon testing session

Friday Jan 24

• 8:00 - noon - Final testing session. 
• Connectathon ends promptly at noon.

  >>Gazelle:

The link to Gazelle on-site & off-site is the same: http://gazelle.iheusa.org

See Anne-Gaëlle or Malo (C28), Steve (K31), or Dr. Phil (C31) about any Gazelle problems, password resets, etc

  >>Seating chart:

-- Click Here - 

  >> Monitors' Profile Assignments:

        Monitor profile assignments are in this google spreadsheet.  

  >>Network Info:

• Network support staff on-site -- at a labelled table near the entry doors to the Connectathon room.
• Connectathon Network Description for testing participants
• Wireless network for monitors:
• SSID: NA2020
• Password: cleveland20 

  >>Test tools 

For TOOLS CONNECTATHON LOCATION & CONFIGURATION:  See https://gazelle.ihe.net/content/na-connectathon-2020-week-resources#Tools   Note: The link sends you to the Participants' page so that we all have consistent configuration information.  Most monitors will want to bookmark that link.

 

Contact Us:

  >>Ask questions. Get help on-site:

• Logistics (expenses, travel...):  Sarah Bell at the Registration Desk or Help Desk
• Network problems:  Network support staff (at a labelled table near the entry doors to the Connectathon room) 
• Gazelle help:  Dr. Phil (C31)
• Questions on Patient Care Devices PCD tests:  Paul Sherman (E28)
• Questions on CDA, RFD tests:  Steve Moore (K31)
• Questions on Radiology and IT Infrastructure tests:  Lynn Felhofer (L28)
• Tool help:  ...varies by tool.  See links in the section above.

    >> Email Support

• Sarah Bell (sbell@himss.org) - Logistics support (travel, hotel, expenses)
• Philip DePalo (naconnectathon.helpdesk@gmail.com) - Technical support (Connectathon processes & tools, or your monitor assignment)
• Monitor Email List -  We use this google group to communicate with monitors:  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ihe-na-connectathon-monitors 

Technical Preparation Resources:

>> Monitors' Profile Assignments:

Monitor profile assignments are in this google spreadsheet.  

We organize IHE profiles with common characteristics or technologies into "clusters", 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.  During the Connectathon, you will have an opportunity, if you wish, to work in areas outside of your primary assignment. In fact, each monitor has the capability to evaluate tests in almost any profile.

There are two tabs in the spreadsheet:

• The first "Assignments" tab contains a row for each monitor.  The columns identify the profile "clusters".  The numbers in the column indicate how you will spend your time, eg a "1" indicates you will devote your time evaluating tests in that cluster.  Some monitors are asked to split time between two clusters.   During Connectathon week monitors will have the opportunity to evaluate tests in another area based on your interest or on our need for help in a certain area.
• The second "Cluster-Profiles" tab identifies the profiles in each cluster.  Each profile listed in Column D contains a link to that profile's documentation.  If the link is to Technical Framework Volume 1, then there is one chapter per profile.  If the link is to a Trial Implementation Supplement, then the entire profile is contained within one document.  The yellow rows also point to available preparation material.

>> Technical Specifications: 

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 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.

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. 

We also test HL7 Consolidated CDA® Release 2.1.  Those specifications are here.

 

>> Monitor training material

While we provide material to enable monitors to do some preparation prior to the Connectathon, we understand the demands of your day job, and we have no requirement for you to do advance prep.

That said, this section contains links to available training material that falls into 4 categories.  

• The January 8 Connectathon Monitor webinar -- if you have time for only one prep item, this is the one to choose.
• General training topics -- probably of more interest to first-time monitors
• Cluster-specific training material -- these trainings are organized according to the 'clusters' of profiles you are assigned to. 

Topic	Date/Time Duration
Connectathon overview for all monitors:
Connectathon Monitors - Preparation & Process Webinar:   - Monitor responsibilities - Connectathon process for monitors - Gazelle walk-through - Q & A Streaming Recording   Slides	approx 60 min
General training: (primary audience is new monitors)
Interpreting the IHE Technical Framework This covers terminology used in IHE Technical Frameworks explains the structure of IHE documentation, and describes IHE's publication cycle. If you've never read IHE documentation before, you will find this background information helpful. (Streaming link) (.mp4)	40 min
Connectathon Terminology Definitions needed to understand using Gazelle during a connectathon (known to most returning participants; highly recommended for new participants & monitors) (Streaming link) (.mp4)	11 min
Using gazelle to review Connectathon test definitions How to use gazelle to read test definitions for IHE profiles you're assigned to. (.mp4)	8 min
IHE 2019 Educational Webinar Series IHE sponsored its annual educational webinar series during summer and fall. You will find overview presentations for each IHE domain as well as 'speciality' presentations on topics like security, cross-community sharing of healthcare information, etc. These presentations *are not* connectathon-specific.	multiple presentations; duration varies
Cluster-specific trainings:
Please refer to the Monitor Assignments.  Then, find the Cluster-Profiles tab.    For each cluster of profiles, you will find links to available Preparation Material, including recordings and slide presentations.	multiple presentations; duration varies

 

 

 

Video

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: https://youtu.be/6SrkvyB1EPs

Our Connectathon FAQ for vendor participants 

We have put together this FAQ with answers to questions we frequently receive from our vendor participants. You may find it informative.