The Health Connection Engine should work on Vista for testing purposes, but we never tesated that configuration. You might have better luck building a VPC. HCE supports the exchange of any kind of message, including HL7 v3. HCE does not have a dependency on HL7 v3. The two are complementary. HCE will take care of all the transmission. Use 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 ...