As part of our product development, we would like to start a public discussion on the TI-Messenger Connect.
Our hypothesis: There is a growing need for 1:1 communication between service providers and patients in the healthcare system. Especially in primary care. As things stand today, patients need to be identified at a high level of trust for the health ID before any communication via the TI Messenger.
The TI-Messenger Connect outlines a target image for simplified access to enable 1:1 communication between insured persons and service providers. The TI-Messenger Connect is intended to enable context-related and low-threshold 1:1 communication (“care context”). TI-M Connect therefore starts where patients are already (digitally) located: In doctors' surgeries, hospitals, pharmacies and telemedical contexts.
- Service providers will be able to provide their patients with their own TI messenger - integrated into a patient portal, a pharmacy app or an appointment booking platform, for example (design goal 1 - TI-M address for all).
- For insured persons, communication via connection requests will be much easier to access because service providers will open a bidirectional chat room with their patients directly on site - from within the care context (design goal 2 - simple onboarding).
Our long-term goal: TI-M shall be used in telemedicine in the future.
To discuss TI-M Connect with us, please comment via Github Discussions:
Today, a minor version of the test suite has been released. This update includes some non-breaking refactoring and streamlining of our API, as well as a change in test cases 10X0109 and 10X0508 which now allow status code 200 additionally to code 404. For full details and all changes and features in this release, please refer to our ReleaseNotes.md.
If you encounter any issues with the test suite, please raise an issue on GitHub to inform us.
Resources:
Test suite repository: https://github.com/gematik/TI-Messenger-Testsuite
Full release notes: https://github.com/gematik/TI-Messenger-Testsuite/blob/main/ReleaseNotes.md
Test driver API: https://github.com/gematik/TI-Messenger-Testsuite/blob/main/src/main/resources/api/TiMessengerTestTreiber.yaml