Odin Health's Technical Director, Phil Xue, represented Odin Health at the first HL7 New Zealand FHIR® Connectathon, which took place on Tuesday, November 20, 2018, at the TSB Arena in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. The Connectathon testing scenarios were successfully completed by Odin Health.

The conference room at the TSB Arena was filled with clinical professionals and medical information industry experts from across New Zealand and Australia on a sunny and pleasant day in Wellington. The conference was chaired by Peter Jordan, the HL7 New Zealand Chairman, and David Hay, the Co-Chair of the FHIR management team.

The main objective of the HL7 New Zealand FHIR® Connectathon was to test the FHIR standard through actual business scenarios and to accumulate experience in implementing the FHIR standard, in order to form recommended implementation guidelines for the future. The Connectathon testing scenarios included patient care, terminology services, adverse event reporting, directory services, health pathways, and more. Vendors such as Odin Health, Health Link, Telstra Health, Change Healthcare, CSIRO, government agencies such as DHB New Zealand District Health Board and ACC New Zealand Accident Compensation Corporation, as well as several medical health clinical experts participated in the testing.

Prior to the testing, Odin Health had in-depth discussions with FHIR international experts and made adequate preparations for the Connectathon. Odin Health was the only vendor to complete the patient care track and provide the server-side organization, in addition to smoothly passing the Connectathon with high quality. Odin Health also completed the facade FHIR® DSTU2, DSTU3, and R4 conversion scenario testing using the Odin engine, as well as provided its own opinions and ideas on testing tools, utilizing the monitoring feature of the Odin engine. Odin Health conducted a thorough research analysis with the HL7NZ organization, which was recognized and accepted by the FHIR management team experts.

Odin Health had in-depth discussions with various vendors from different countries, especially on the latest developments of FHIR® and the status of the new standards for the interoperability of medical information in the New Zealand and Australian regions.

Odin Health plans to deploy partner application systems in future FHIR® Connectathon, using the Odin engine to interface with application systems and other FHIR servers to provide international standard support for the integration of medical information in China, in collaboration with its partners.