A Qualified Technology Solution (QTS) is a System implemented by an eHealth Exchange Applicant or Participant, which satisfies the following:

• Qualified Technology Solution Basic (QTS Basic) shall mean a System implemented by an eHealth Exchange Applicant or Participant, which satisfies the following:
  • Is an eHealth Exchange Validated System;
  • Has a standardized production-level configuration that complies with the eHealth Exchange Performance and Service Specifications;
  • Has a customer that is exchanging with one or more federal agencies and is recognized as a Federal Fast Track (or equivalent) program partner
    Has a minimum of four (4) production Participants in the eHealth Exchange network who have successfully completed testing without any failures, and actively exchanging data with other production Participants using a different technology; thus demonstrating a history of reproducible compliance with the Performance and Service Specifications. Those production Participants may not have any outstanding technical issues that impede their ability to exchange information with other eHealth Exchange Participants.
    Qualified Technology Solution
• Intermediate (QTS Intermediate) shall mean a System implemented by an eHealth Exchange Applicant or Participant, which satisfies the following:
  • Has satisfied all requirements for QTS Basic
  • Has successfully submitted test reports under QTS Basic for a minimum of 6 months with no issues.
  • Those production Participants may not have any outstanding technical issues that impede their ability to exchange information with other eHealth Exchange Participants as referenced in both the Operating Policies and Procedures and Validation Plan.
  • eHealth Exchange staff, in consultation with the vendor, eHealth Exchange Coordinating Committee and a vendor’s customer production partners, will evaluate the QTS vendor to determine if the vendor has demonstrated high degree of consistency and reproducibility with production partners in a significant percentage of the vendor’s customer base.
• Qualified Technology Solution Advanced (QTS Advanced) shall mean a System implemented by an eHealth Exchange Applicant or Participant, which satisfies the following:
  • Has satisfied all requirements for QTS Basic and Intermediate
  • ALL Production Participants utilizing the approved QTS-Intermediate solution have successfully demonstrated Content Testing Validation, with no errors.
  • Those production Participants may not have any outstanding technical issues that impede their ability to exchange information with other eHealth Exchange Participants as referenced in both the Operating Policies and Procedures and Validation Plan.