Seems like a requirements document of some sort should be put together to cover EMR/EHR testing.
That suggestion arises from a background in Fault Tolerant/Highly Available systems and networks.
In short, any suggestion/need to take the system out of operation or degrade ongoing operations is
definitely forbidden It can be done, but quickly, if the system crashes).
This requires integrating testability into the design in such a way that test-oriented operations are a
subset on 'normal' operations and the objective is to verify hardware/software/application operability.
This is not a far stretch. Next time you use the ATM machine remember that these problems were
solved some time ago.
I'll look in the archives to see if some thoughts can be assembled.
In parallel it would be nice to find out what Health Services are doing and what requirements they
apply.
Regards!
-Thomas Clark
Adrian Midgley wrote:
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 05:03, Fred Trotter wrote:
What Walt and I were talking about was the need for a standard set of
test data for FreeB.
It would be nice if a national health service or organisation of similar size could be persuaded to make a set of test data available - I know of one that has such a set which is used for compliance testing some record systems.
I think the area of testing and certification are interesting and important, and I think it is time regulatory bodies showed an interest, by offering what help they can. Maybe talk to your national ones?
