We had a fairly well attended session and the objective of providing an overview of the Health Connection Engine (HCE) and IHE XDS.b reference implementations was achieved, although with the time we had I could not get into a lot of detail. We have talked about the HCE in the past so I'll try to focus on the IHE aspect in this post. Background on ...

You put your finger where it hurts the most :-) But there is hope... Here are a few things to consider:The big players of today might not be the big players of tomorrow. They know that and you cannot win a market by holding information hostage. This is true not just for health, see what happened to Office file formats :-)Customers are demanding ...

First, let me say I wholeheartedly applaud Microsoft's efforts on NHIN and with CHF. We have to start somewhere. I represent the small software developer who is trying to develop and market a new front-end product for the healthcare market with some ideas that have been piloted in a few places. What has led me to despair in the past is ...