Interoperability Land™

Immersive Environment for the Health Sector and beyond

Interoperability Land™ (IOL) is a collaborative, digital platform designed to power the future of interoperability. Based on Meld, an open-source sandbox populated with fully synthetic FHIR® data, IOL offers a hosted ‘private locker’ immersive environment to advance industry solutions for private sector companies, technology incubators, start-up companies, and academic endeavors.

IOL is a cloud-hosted, collaborative digital platform and test bed that supports an HL7® FHIR®-based simulated healthcare ecosystem with highly realistic synthetic data to enable advanced interoperability testing and development across different organizations and systems. A solution enabler, testing environment, community support platform and technology incubator. Learn more…

With IOL you can



  • Power the future of interoperability through the integration, acceptance, and testing of technologies and open standards.
  • “Fail Forward” in a safe, risk-free environment with completely synthetic patient personas.
  • Rigorously test and certify that applications meet standards, performance, and scalability requirements.
  • Deliver higher quality applications and services faster to market.
  • Securely Collaborate with other organizations to develop and test interoperable, standards-compliant solutions.

IOL Features

  • Cloud-based access for users.
  • An Immersive Environment or sandbox, that simulates a state or national Health Information Network (HIN) and emerging Health Data Utilities (HDU).
  • Persistent SMART® on FHIR® applications using an open, standards-based technology platform. IOI2 enables innovators to create apps that seamlessly and securely run across the healthcare system in real time.
  • A Developers Portal to safely expose third party APIs.
  • Standard FHIR DSTU2, STU3, and R4 formats are available.
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Synthetic Data Offerings

  • IOI includes preloaded synthetic personas that allows development without compromising PHI.
  • Safe harbor PHI de-identification services.
  • Reference implementation(s) of standard-based HL7 FHIR use case simulations to jump start path-to-production.

Interoperability Learning Lab Course Packs

  • IOI provides customizable lesson plans to meet the training need of your organization.
  • Access to a library of course packs can be provided to build your company curriculum.
  • They include asynchronous, self-paced training modules address the needs of a virtual workforce.
  • Interoperability Learning Lab Course Packs are easily integrated with existing internal learning management systems.