The generic description of the eHealth Services Hub in part 3 of the Architecture and Design Blueprint includes a superset of all different types of services that may be needed at various points and levels in a distributed healthcare network.  As described in the section "Deployment Options" (p.105), depending on the topology of the ...

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 ...

I'm here at the MS-HUG TechForum this week and right now sitting in the Kodiak Room in the Microsoft Conference Center where the TechForum takes place. Steve Aylward, the General Manager for the US Health and Life Sciences group, just gave us an update on the work that Microsoft is doing in supporting Healthcare Providers, Health Plans and Life ...

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 ...

We have released version 2.1.1 of the Health Connection Engine to CodePlex. The release addresses a few issues we identified in setup and the Deployment Guide and some security and performance warning raised by FxCop. From the project description: ''The Health Connection Engine facilitates the interoperability between these multiple systems by ...

I had several reports of people not being able to access the recording of the Connected Health Framework - Architecture and Design Blueprint webcast. The problem should now be fixed. The recording is available on the MS Events web site.

As you probably have seen from the HIMSS news, we have posted our first reference implementation for the Connected Health Framework reference architecture:Health Connection Engine (HCE): The Health Connection Engine is a reference implementation based on the Connected Health Framework architecture. HCE allows for faster and incremental development ...

This is the presentation that was used during the Connected Health Framework Webcast on January 16th 2007. You can access the details of the session and the recording online at https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-us&RegistrationID=1287874341. The presentation is in PowerPoint 2007 format.

What do you mean exactly? Part 3 of the CHF goes into a lot of detail on that aspect...