Pan-Canadian Projectathon – March 2022

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude once again to all those who provided input into the PS-CA, helping us understand how to best utilize the Gazelle tooling in the future, and contributing to the discussions about core interoperability challenges in Canada’s first Projectathon.

We are pleased to share the Projectathon final report with you, which describes the Projectathon proceedings, including notable highlights, participant feedback, lessons learned, and opportunities for improvement. The report is publicly available via the Projectathon page on InfoScribe.

Thank you again for all your support – we look forward to working with you for Projectathon 2023!

Today we completed the first pan-Canadian Projectathon with the objective to test the pan-Canadian Patient Summary Interoperability Specifications (PS-CA & CA:FeX)!

A huge thank you to all attendees for your active participation and valuable insights!

The Final Projectathon Summary, summarizing the Projectathon key achievements, is available here .

We'd appreciate if you may share your feedback with us by completing our short Survey Monkey, maximum of 5 minutes, by Monday, March 28th. The survey is available here .

PS-CA v0.3 and CA:FeX v0.2 Open Review Reminder
We would like to extend our thanks to all those who have completed a review of and submitted comments on the PS-CA v0.3 and/or the CA:FeX v0.2. If you have not yet had an opportunity to submit your comments, please note that the open review period for both specifications closes on Friday, March 25th.

Please visit the corresponding release pages for access to the specifications and details on how to provide feedback.

• PS-CA v0.3 Specifications release page
• CA:FeX v0.2 Specifications release page

Once again, many thanks!

Projectathon Day 2 was a great success!

We saw the first vendor generated FHIR-based PS-CA and over 2 dozen FHIR document exchanges using either CA:FeX or MHD!
Forty-seven tests were either started, completed or verified as well!

For more details about the achievements and challenges from the day, please go here to view the Projectathon Summary Dashboard for Day 2.

Tomorrow we will wrap-up the remaining tests. Following the testing, there will be four facilitated round-table sessions covering the following topics:

• FHIR Content Data Model
• Supporting Profiles for the PS-CA Exchange
• Approaches to Document Management
• Clinical Workflow

We are so appreciative for all of the hard work and effort by each of the participants, Kereval and our support team!

Projectathon Day 1 is a Wrap!

The day was a successful one with 12 tests either started, completed or verified and vendors getting familiar with the Gazelle and Rocket.Chat tools!

Tomorrow we will continue with leftover no-peer testing and the focus shifting to Peer-to-Peer tests. For more details about the achievements and challenges from the day, please go here to view the Projectathon Summary Dashboard for Day 1.

We want to take this opportunity once again to thank our vendors for their participation today and throughout the event! Also, merci beaucoup to Kereval for their timely and professional support today!

It’s the final countdown - our first pan-Canadian Projectathon begins on Monday, March 21 at 10AM EST!

Check out the Projectathon agenda here .

A couple of friendly reminders for participants:

• Ensure your systems are configured and connected to the Gazelle platform. For more information, refer to the Information Package for the Projectathon March 2022 .
• Sign-in to your Rocket.Chat account to be able to communicate with your peers, Infoway and IHE Catalyst during the Projectathon.

If you have any questions prior to the Projectathon, please post them on the Projectathon March 2022 Support thread.

For those not participating in the Projectathon, you will be able to follow along through our daily updates so stay tuned and watch this page!

We look forward to ‘seeing’ you at the event,
Samantha

To support our participants in their pre-projectathon journey, we have prepared instructions for how to find, and therefore complete and verify, the tests in Gazelle that can be found here .

We have also developed The Hitchhikers Guide to Projectathon: that provides an overview of what to expect during the upcoming Projectathon. It can be found here .

We are now just under two weeks away from the kick off of our first ever Canadian Projectathon!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, you can ask them using this thread Projectathon March 2022 Support .

Thank you,
Allana