NIST XDS Public Registry Test Facility
This server is operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in support of Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) and related profiles published by Integrating the Healthcare Environment (IHE).
The XDS profile describes how to exchange clinical documements for patient care. XDS is based on the OASIS standards ebRIM and ebRS. As an "interoperability profile", XDS describes how to use the ebRIM and ebRS standards to exchange clinical documents in such a way that multiple implementations, all based on the profile, can interoperate in a production clinical setting.
This site contains an implementation of the Document Registry and Document Repository actors (as defined by XDS) that can be used for interoperability testing. Implementations of the Document Source and Document Consumer actors are available for download. The XDS Testing home page below contains documentation on how to use the server (Repository and Registry actors) and how to download and use the client (Source and Consumer actors).
The following links should be useful:
- XDS Testing home page - documentation for XDS implementers on how to test XDS and related profiles published by IHE
- IHE Home Page - for more information regarding IHE
- Descriptions of XDS and related profiles
- Profile documents for XDS and related profiles
- XDS Implementers Mailing list - public mailing list dedicated to the discussion of implementing and testing XDS and related profiles.
- NIST Home Page- for more information regarding NIST
Open source
The sources for this test facility are available as open source on Source Forge as project IheOs.
This project contains implementations of the following XDS actors:
- Document Registry
- Document Repository
- Document Source
- Document Consumer
The Registry and Repository are structure as a server based on Tomcat and the Source and Consumer actors are implemented in Java command-line format.
Supporting elements
The following elements are needed to run this software:
- Apache Tomcat
- PostresSQL
- Java version 1.5 jdk
- ebxmlrr Registry/Repository implementation version ebxmlrr-2.1final1 (part of ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net). This version is no longer available from its original project so it is included for download here
Targetted Environment
The registry and repository implementation (server) is primarily targetted at Unix-like systems. It is developed on MacOs and Linux platforms. The Document Source and Document Consumer implementation operate on Unix-like systems and are frequently used on Windows.
Resources
- Project Home Page on Source Forge
- Support Mailing List (Archive)
- Support Mailing List (Joining)
- News
- CVS Information
- Browse CVS
- File Releases