PilotFish announces automated healthcare interoperability test portal

MIDDLETOWN, USA: PilotFish Technology announced the Automated Interoperability Test Portal. The Portal is a web application where a healthcare organization can publish its interface specifications and provide automated testing, validation and interoperability simulation services to electronic trading partners.

Trading partners benefit by having 24/7 access to everything they need to quickly and efficiently configure interfaces and test and validate them prior to deployment.

Bringing on trading partners has been a long and arduous process. Each demands individualized support. All of the documentation, implementation guides and sample files must be gathered up and sent to each trading partner. Then the trading partner builds the interfaces, often from scratch, or by modifying similar interfaces.

Next is the long, drawn out process of testing, tweaking, verifying, emailing and endless phone calls and delays – consuming valuable resources on PilotFish’s Automated Interoperability Test Portal changes that and represents a totally new paradigm for how organizations bring trading partners online.

The portal provides all of the documentation necessary for the trading partner to quickly build interfaces to the hosting organization. Once the interfaces are built, the portal supports secure access for automated submission, testing and validation of the interfaces to ensure compliance with the documentation.

End-to-end testing of requests and responses is provided allowing the trading partner to simulate production before going “live.” When satisfied with their self-testing, the trading partner contacts the organization’s representative for final integration testing and production deployment.