Laika – An EHR testing framework
What is Laika
Laika is used to test the interoperability capability of EHR systems. It is based upon open source software. Laika veifies the input and output of EHR data against the standards and criteria identified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT).
Since June 2008, Laika has been used by CCHIT to perform the automated testing of EHR systems for interoperability.
Laika uses the Ruby on Rails framework, JAVA,, the MySQL database, and some JavaScript libraries including Scriptaculous and Prototype.
How to download
You may like to check http://laika.sourceforge.net/ , if you are interested in downloading and installing Laika. You do not need to be a EHR vendor to use laika. Although Laika has been designed to support testing of EHRs, you can still use the tool to see how Laika and the EHR standards that it tests are used.
If you are developing and EHR system you may like to check out laika.