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Test ToolsNIST is has developed an Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) generator tool called ICSGenerator to facilitate creation of vendor conformance statements that would be applicable to testing a particular ISO/IEEE 11073 (X73) device. Additionally, NIST has completed initial development of a ValidatePDU tool, a tool that provides basic syntax and structure check and low level semantic checks for one or more captured messages. Both tools utilize the electronic representation of the X73 standard's information model implemented by NIST researchers in the form of an XML schema. These tools (and information model) are publicly and freely available. Central to our approach is a capability of the ICSGenerator tool which provides an interface to easily develop and produce implementation conformance statements (ICSs). Users such as medical device vendors, manufacturers, and clinical engineers execute the tool to produce statements which disclose details of a specific implementation and specify the features provided by a particular medical device (i.e., a device profile). Device ICSs, based on, and required by, the ISO/IEEE X73 standard, can subsequently be compared and utilized across device interfaces to help overcome the semantic interoperability problem that is so prevalent today and has prevented proliferation of plug-and-play interoperable solutions. Device profiles can also be used in conjunction with messages from/to devices to determine conformance and validity to standards. Using our X73 PDU validation tool, a determination of not only the correctness of the X73 message, but compliance to the user defined profile (derived via the ICSGenerator tool) can be determined. Medical device test message generation is also possible to enable future manager/agent conformance test scenarios. Privacy
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