Introduction

XDS.b Document Registries must complete the preparation described here before performing XDS.b Connectathon tests.

Instructions

(1) Affinity Domains for Registries:  During Connectathon, each XDS.b Document Registry has been assigned to an affinity domain that determines the Patient IDs your Registry will accept.  These affinity domains are referred to as the "Red", "Blue" or "Green". (If this is your first Connectathon, these affinity domains are explained here.)  The Connectathon Project Manager announces the Red/Blue/Green assignments in advance of the Connectathon.  It is documented in this google spreadsheet.  

(2) Connectathon patients to pre-load on your Registry:  To support XDS tests, Registries load patient demographics provided in advance by the Connectathon Technical Project Manager.  If you  have performed pre-Connecthon test Preload_Connectathon_Test_Patients , you already have these patients in your database; otherwise follow the instructions in that test now.   You will only load patients for the Affinity Domain you were assigned to above

(3) Metadata Codes:  Document Registries must also be configured with codes for Connectathon Affinity Domain Metadata.  These are documented in the codes.xml file found in the latest release of the NIST XDS Toolkit here:  https://github.com/usnistgov/iheos-toolkit2/releases/.  First-time Connectathon participants can read background information about metadata codes here.

NOTE:  Some Connectathons may use different codes for metadata.  If that is the case, the Technical Project Manager will provide other guidance.

Evaluation

There is no result file to upload to Gazelle Test Management for this informational test. If the Document Registry does not do the set-up described above, then peer-to-peer XDS.b tests at Connectathon will not work.