TPJ Integration Tips

Before determining which interface consultant is the right fit for your healthcare integration needs, TPJ Integration Developers have compiled this simple list to assist you in determining which integration developer is the right fit for you. If your integration developers have any difficulty answering these simple questions, then it is time to contact TPJ. 

1. Project Sponsor defines business reason

2. Define what the interface will accomplish.

3. What parties will be doing what?

4. Negotiate formats that the sending and receiving systems will need for communication?

5. Establish timelines.

6. Design interface

7. Develop translate functions, lookup tables, and  base filters.

8. Unit Testing.

9. Capture Unit Testing feedback.

10. Write custom code to handle errors.

11. Unit Testing

12. Promote code to Production Staging Area

13. Systems Testing

14. Prepare Support documentation

15. Make additional changes as needed.

    If changes made, back to step 11

16. Integrated testing/ Regression testing.

17. User Acceptance Testing for production release.

18. Promote code to production environment.

19. Test connections in Production.

20. Send test messages to production.

21. User Acceptance Sign-off

22. Go Live

23. Final sign-off on deployed interface.

24. Review development and implementation, lessons learned

25. User defines additional custom data-filter rules as needed.