Health IT Developers with a certification scope that requires Real World Testing (RWT) need to be aware of the important dates for real world testing and plan ahead to meet these deadlines. 

Important Real World Testing Dates: 

August 31 – Any RWT criteria certified by August 31 of a given year are required to be included in the RWT Plan for the following year’s testing. 

October 15 – RWT Plan for the following year’s testing is due to SLI Compliance  

February 1 – RWT Results Report for the previous year’s testing is due to SLI Compliance 

• The purpose of this Condition and Maintenance of Certification requirement is for Certified Health IT Developers to demonstrate interoperability and functionality of their Certified Health IT in real world settings and scenarios, rather than in a controlled test environment with an ONC-Authorized Testing Lab.  
• Real World Testing verifies that deployed Certified Health IT continues to perform as intended by conducting and measuring observations of interoperability and data exchange.  
• These observations are described in a public and transparent way through Real World Testing plans and reported as Real World Testing results.  
• Health IT Developers will report testing results for each of the measures in their Real World Test plan(s).  

Please see the ONC’s Real World Test site for information and resources: Real World Testing | HealthIT.gov 

For questions, please contact the SLI Compliance Team at ACB@slicompliance.com