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openEHR Conformance Certificate

Issuer: openEHR Specification Program

Release: CNF development

Status: DEVELOPMENT

Revision: [latest_issue]

Date: [latest_issue_date]

Keywords: conformance, certificate

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Acknowledgements

This specification was developed and is maintained by the openEHR Specifications Editorial Committee (SEC).

Principal Authors

  • Thomas Beale, Ars Semantica, UK; openEHR International Board

  • Pablo Pazos Gutierrez, CaboLabs, Uruguay

Trademarks

  • 'openEHR' is a trademark of the openEHR Foundation

1. Preface

1.1. Purpose

This document defines a template for openEHR Conformance Certificate, a document that is generated as the result of executing a conformance test schedule against a running system or application. This may be a product, or a particular system, e.g. the specific environment of a healthcare provider. The audience of this document includes:

  • Software development organisations developing healthcare information systems;

  • Customer (i.e. procuring) organisations.

Useful references for reading this document include:

1.3. Status

This specification is in the DEVELOPMENT state. The development version of this document can be found at https://specifications.openehr.org/releases/CNF/development/certificate.html.

Known omissions or questions are indicated in the text with a 'to be determined' paragraph, as follows:

TBD: (example To Be Determined paragraph)

1.4. Feedback

Feedback may be provided on the openEHR Conformance forum.

Issues may be raised on the specifications Problem Report tracker.

To see changes made due to previously reported issues, see the CNF component Change Request tracker.

2. Overview

An openEHR Conformance Certificate consists of a rating in the Functional and Content dimensions, and a detailed report. The ratings are as follows:

Characteristics Levels Description

Functional

CORE

Core functionality required for operational deployment.

STANDARD

More comprehensive capabilities useful in a 'standard' EHR operational environment.

OPTIONS

Optional features required in specific circumstances.

Non-functional

BASIC-SEC

Basic security features.

BASIC-PRIV

Basic privacy features.

External data format

Canonical XML

openEHR Canonical XML, defined by published XSDs

Canonical JSON

openEHR Canonical XML, defined by published transform of XML

A generated certificate for a typical system will look as shown in the following section.

Conformance Certificate

System Under Test (SUT)

Solution

BestEHR release 2.4
details …​

Vendor

ACME EHR systems LLC, Maxperformancia

Assessor

openEHR Foundation

Infrastructure

openEHR CNF-test WS 1.5.0 on AWS …​
System under test on AWS …​

Date

12 April 2017

Scope of Test

Functional

CORE, Extras

Sec & Priv

xxx

Ext Data Fmt

XML, JSON

Detailed Test Report

SUT Component openEHR Component Capability (profile) Conformance point Test Case REST protobuf

CDR

EHR persistence

EHR Operations

I_EHR_SERVICE.create_ehr()

EHR.
create_ehr-main

pass

pass

Versioning

I_EHR_COMPOSITION.
get_versioned_composition()

EHR_COMPOSITION.
get_versioned_composition

pass

pass

I_EHR_CONTRIBUTION.
commit_contribution()

I_EHR_CONTRIBUTION.
commit_contribution-
valid_composition

pass

FAIL

I_EHR_CONTRIBUTION.
commit_contribution-
valid_invalid_compositions

FAIL

FAIL

…​

etc

Profile Report

SUT
Component
openEHR
Component
Capability Required
in profile
Result

K-base

Definitions

ADL 1.4 archetype provisioning

Y

pass

ADL 1.4 OPT provisioning

Y

pass

Query provisioning

Y

pass

CDR

EHR persistence

EHR Operations

Y

pass

EHR Status

Y

pass

Composition Operations

Y

pass

Directory Operations

Y

pass

Change Sets

Y

pass

Versioning

Y

pass

Konsole

Admin

Activity Report

OPT

FAIL

Physical Delete

N

pass

EHR Archive

OPT

pass

…​

etc

Amendment Record

Issue Details Raiser Completed

CNF Release 1.0.0 (unreleased)

0.5.0

Initial Writing

T Beale

03 Jan 2022