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 ...

It’s been about a month now since we released HealthVault and we heard a lot of great feedback from the industry. Pretty much everyone in Health has an opinion on HealthVault :-) I also saw some interesting debate regarding how HealthVault addresses the big elephant in the room: compliance with existing standards. I have been involved in ...

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 ...

We have just published a whitepaper on the use of Office Open XML in Health at the address below: Using Office Open XML Formats to Support Electronic Health Records Portability and Health Industry Standards Abstract: Empowering patients and consumers to exchange Electronic Health Records securely is a big debate in the health industry across the ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have not even shipped Version 2.0 of the HL7 Accelerator for BizTalk that Tom is already thinking ahead and posting a whish list for v3. Some of the issues he outlines are already addressed in v1.3, others will in v2: 1.1, this is addressed in v1.3 and v2.0 by a flag you need to set on the party trading with you. 2, this is going to be ...

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 ...