About Inferno on HealthIT.gov

Overview

Welcome to Inferno on HealthIT.gov, a public Inferno test host provided by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). This site provides a live demonstration environment for select HL7® FHIR® tests written using the Inferno Framework. This includes the (g)(10) Standardized API Test Kit which is an approved test method for the ONC (g)(10) Certification Criterion.

Inferno tests are packaged in executable Test Kits, which typically target requirements provided by one or more FHIR Implementation Guides. Inferno on HealthIT.gov allows users to execute tests within several Inferno Test Kits. To get started testing, select the Test Kit that targets an Implementation Guide relevant to your system on the Test Kits page. Or if you would like to quickly try out a set of tests against a simulated API, visit the (g)(10) Standardized API Walkthrough for instructions.

About the Inferno Framework

All tests that are available on Inferno on HealthIT.gov are built using the Inferno Framework, a framework for creating, executing and sharing FHIR conformance tests. If you are interested in learning how to create your own tests with the Inferno Framework, visit the Inferno Framework documentation site.

Available Inferno Test Kits

This site runs a curated set of Inferno Test Kits that are generally relevant to ONC's Certification program and standards-related activities, while also meeting a standard for quality and completeness. Visit the Test Kit page to see which Test Kits are currently available to be run on this site. Please reach out to the team if you have built an Inferno Test Kit that you would like to be added to this site.

For a more comprehensive list of Test Kits built using the Inferno Framework, including those not available to be executed on this site, the Inferno team maintains a list of publicly available, open source Test Kits on the Inferno Framework community page.

Inferno on HealthIT.gov Public Hosts

inferno.healthit.gov

Inferno on HealthIT.gov is a public Inferno Platform, hosted by ASTP/ONC for the benefit of the community. An Inferno Platform is a specialized site for hosting many Inferno Test Kits, with a configuration that is designed to scale to many simultaneous users. Inferno Platforms typically have a primary host: e.g. inferno.healthit.gov. But can also have secondary hosts for staging or development purposes, e.g. inferno-qa.healthit.gov.

The host inferno.healthit.gov is the officially supported primary public Inferno Platform on HealthIT.gov, and is regularly updated with approved stable releases of Inferno Core and supported Test Kits.

inferno-qa.healthit.gov

The host inferno-qa.healthit.gov is a staging platform provided for quality assurance (QA) testing and demonstration of upcoming Test Kits or development releases of Inferno Core.

It is NOT FOR CERTIFICATION USE.

It is likely to be updated without notice and should only be used by those with a need to work with pre-release Test Kits or Inferno Core features under development.

Both hosts are for demonstration purposes only, and should not be used with any sensitive data or Protected Health Information (PHI).

Contact the Team

For questions or issues with this site, please reach out to the Inferno team on the #Inferno FHIR Zulip channel.

Please submit issues with individual tests to the maintainers of those tests. Each Test Kit includes contact information, and issues with specific Test Kits are typically tracked via the Test Kit's GitHub repository. For example, the ONC Certification (g)(10) Standardized API Test Kit tracks issues on its associated GitHub Repository Issue page. Links to the appropriate issue tracker are typically provided in the Test Kit description and in the footer of the testing interface.