The HealthShare Health Connect HL7 Interface Specialist exam is designed to validate core skills for developers who use Health Connect to build and test HL7 v2.x productions.
Exam Details
Target Exam Role
HL7 Interface Specialist
An IT professional who designs, builds and performs basic troubleshooting of HL7 interfaces with HealthShare Health Connect
Note: This exam does not require familiarity with ObjectScript
Recommended Preparation
- Complete available Health Connect learning content:
- At least six months of on-the-job experience, or the equivalent skills
Exam Parameters
Number of questions: 50
Exam time limit: 2 hours
Passing score: 65%
Language offered: English
Exam Topics and Content
The exam contains question items that cover the areas for the stated role as shown in the KSA (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities) chart immediately below. The question items are presented in multiple formats including multiple choice, multiple response, hotspot, pull-down selection, etc.
| TOPIC/KNOWLEDGE | SECTION/SKILLS | ABILITIES |
| T1 Designs HL7 productions | T1.1 | Interprets interface requirements |
| T1.2 | Chooses production architecture components | |
| T1.3 | Designs custom schemas | |
| T1.4 | Designs routing rules | |
| T2 Builds HL7 productions | T2.1 | Adds business components to build interfaces |
| T2.2 | Creates and applies routing rules | |
| T2.3 | Applies key configuration settings in productions | |
| T2.4 | Uses DTL Editor to build DTLs | |
| T2.5 | Creates and applies lookup tables | |
| T2.6 | Creates custom schemas | |
| T2.7 | Applies ACK/NACK functionality | |
| T3 Troubleshoots HL7 productions | T3.1 | Identifies and uses tools for troubleshooting |
| T3.2 | Follows message flows in Visual Trace | |
| T3.3 | Interprets Visual Trace to identify errors | |
| T3.4 | Searches messages for research | |
| T3.5 | Identifies and uses logs when troubleshooting |