Sorry to use this blog for a public service announcement :-) For the folks that attended my tutorial (TH18 HL7 Version 3 Implementation Mechanics - Part II) at the Atlanta HL7 Working Group Meeting, please contact me directly to have a copy of the presentation. I apologize if the printout was garbled, apparently you really need a decoder ring to ...

Straight from the horse's mouth, Stuart Landrum, Program Manager for the BizTalk Accelerators gave an overview of the new features for the Accelerator for HL7 2.0(A4HL7) in BizTalk 2006 R2. Here they are: New Accelerator Licensing! Support for HL7 v2.5 Support of international characters Support for ordered messaging Enhanced MLLP persistent ...

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 ...