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Search Publications by: Robert D. Snelick (Fed)

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An HL7 v2 Platform for Standards Development and Testing

July 16, 2017
Author(s)
Sandra I. Martinez, Robert D. Snelick
Development of healthcare data exchange standards has long been problematic, plagued with ambiguous and inconsistent requirement specifications. This situation leads to potential misinterpretation by implementers, thus limiting the effectiveness of the

An Interoperability Test Bed for Distributed Healthcare Applications

March 24, 2014
Author(s)
Robert D. Snelick
Standards provide the foundation for ensuring interoperability, but if they are not implemented correctly or consistently, their value is diminished leading to problematic installations and higher costs. Conformance and Interoperability testing is

Principles for Profiling Healthcare Data Communication Standards

July 22, 2013
Author(s)
Robert D. Snelick
Healthcare organizations often have many proprietary heterogeneous information systems that must exchange data reliably. Seamlessly sharing information among systems is complex. The widely adopted HL7 version 2 messaging standard has helped the process of

Testing Environments for Assessing Conformance and Interoperability

July 12, 2012
Author(s)
Robert D. Snelick, Leonard E. Gebase
We present a classification framework of testing environments that support conformance and interoperability testing of distributed systems. We describe each testing environment and state the applicability and requirements placed on a realization of a

A Framework for Testing Distributed Healthcare Applications

July 13, 2009
Author(s)
Robert D. Snelick, Leonard E. Gebase, Gavin W. O'Brien
We present an architectural framework for supporting conformance and interoperability testing among distributed healthcare systems. Healthcare organizations such as hospitals employ information systems that are composed of multiple, distributed

Assessing Approaches for Evaluating Remote Heterogeneous Applications

July 13, 2009
Author(s)
Leonard E. Gebase, Robert D. Snelick
We examine several methods for testing disparate, heterogeneous systems that intercommunicate through message exchanges governed by a set of well defined message exchange rules. Rather than basing our assessment on a set of abstract applications, we will

Conformance Testing and Interoperability: A Case Study in Healthcare Data Exchange

July 14, 2008
Author(s)
Robert D. Snelick, Leonard E. Gebase, Mark Skall
Correct data exchange is critical for ensuring reliable healthcare systems. Standards based systems are the foundation for achieving this goal. However, standards alone are not enough to ensure this promise; conformance and interoperability testing are

Dynamically Generating Conformance Tests for Messaging Systems

June 26, 2006
Author(s)
Robert D. Snelick, Leonard E. Gebase, Sydney Henrard
The advent of XML technologies for data exchange negotiations in B2B applications is proliferating a new class of messaging standards that are only fully designed at the implementation level. These specifications offer unmatched flexibility. However, this