As you might know, WMDA is striving to have more and high quality data and insight available to inform effective and efficient patient/donor matching. In August, a letter has been sent out to inform you about the change to move to a new Extensible Markup Language (XML) file format.
Not all organisations are ready to go to the XML format and asked us to delay the transition to the first quarter of 2018.
The infrastructure of accepting and validating files is nearly ready. At the moment, we are working on performance and penetration tests of the system. This is important in order to ensure the security and authenticity of all the data. However, the testing period requires more time than initially anticipated.
Based on these observations, the decision has been taken to extend the transition date to move to XML for data submission to April 1, 2018.
Find below the revised timelines in order to migrate from the old data format to the new (XML) data format.
Key date | Activities |
July 31, 2017 - January 15, 2018 |
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January 15 - February 15, 2018 |
NOTE: All organisations should continue to send DOT20 files via the current data submission method to update their data the production database |
March 1 - April 1, 2018 |
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April 1 - June 1, 2018 |
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Annually |
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We published the revised timelines for transition to XML file data submission to BMDW here. We also sent this information by email to the CEOs of all listing organisations and by email to the people who are responsible for the data submission of the DOT20 files and all test users. You can also take a look at a copy of the letter here.
If you are involved in the data submission to BMDW for your organisation, please make sure that you take notice of this information. If you haven't started to implement the changes to create an XML file in your organisation, please start scheduling the development as soon as possible.
On November 9th, you can also meet the team at the WMDA Fall meeting in Minneapolis. They are available from 09:00 AM till 11:00 AM in Director’s Row 3 in the Hilton Hotel for answering any questions.