Design of a Test Framework for Automated Interoperability Testing of Healthcare Information Systems

One of the challenges of evolving healthcare information systems used in healthcare domain is their interoperability. Interoperability not only permits healthcare institutes to take advantage of using heterogeneous solutions from different vendors but it also offers the basis for creating a larger range of services at the edge of medicine/healthcare and information technology. New services can be created in a consistent way based on common approaches of structuring and representing healthcare data. This paper presents a test framework for testing interoperability of eHealth systems. As a major result, the test framework is designed for test automation and extendability with respect to test configurations and test cases.