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 ...

After a long gestation period we have finally published the HL7 v3 and BizTalk whitepaper: Getting Started with HL7 v3 and BizTalk Server 2006 This paper provides developers with an overview of HL7 version 3 Messaging (HL7 v3) concepts, how to build HL7 v3 solutions with Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006, and how to convert message format from HL7 ...

Your best bet would be the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) available as part of the HL7 v3 standards. It makes sense to use the RIM as the starting point since a lot of work has been done to define popular concepts such as patient, encounter, medication, observation... The RIM is designed to accomodate information elements that are ...