4.0Conformance Statement

This section describes the conformance criteria, which are objective statements of requirements that can be used to determine if a specific behavior, function, interface, or code set has been implemented correctly.

4.1.1 Conformance Criteria

For an implementation to claim conformance to a HITSP Interoperability Specification, it must be implemented in its entirety or within a limited scope or subset as defined within the Interoperability Specification, its associated construct specifications, as well as conformance criteria from the selected base and composite standards. A conformant system must be constrained as specified in this Interoperability Specification, and implement all of the required interfaces within the scope, subset or implementation options as described.

4.1.2 Conformance Scoping, Subsetting and Options

HITSP may define the permissibility for system scoping, subsetting or implementation options by which the specification may be implemented in a limited manner. The selected scope, subset or options shall specifically be stated, and implementations must include all requirements within the selected scope, subset or options to claim conformance.

For this Interoperability Specification, conformance may be declared by a participating system for any Capability provided that all declared constraints, conditions and requirements imposed by the Capability and its referenced HITSP constructs on the interface are satisfied.

4.1.3 Test Methods

HITSP relies on the conformance test methods, test tools and other test-related material produced by, or under the auspices, of standards developers, profiling organizations and implementation guide producers as part of its collaborative implementation testing effort. Efforts to produce conformance test methods, tools, etc. may be internal to the organization or provided by an external organization.

An HIT Implementation Testing and Support website has been developed in collaboration with HITSP, NIST, CCHIT, and ONC to advance conformance and interoperability testing capabilities. This website provides HIT implementers with the necessary resources to support and test their implementation of standards-based health systems.

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