The Healthcare IT Blog

It is official, after a week of testing in Chicago at the IHE Connectathon , the Microsoft IHE XDS.b Reference Implementation has passed and received the GREEN LIGHT from the Connectathon staff: You can expect the final drop of the code to be posted to...

We just close the curtain on the summer TechForum and it's already time to start planning for the next one. HIMSS just issued the call for proposals for the 2008 TechForum happening in conjunction with HIMSS in Orlando, FL Call for Proposals Now Open...

During the past MS-HUG TechForum Stuart hinted to an upcoming whitepaper on ordered delivery patterns on BizTalk 2006 R2. The whitepaper and associated code is now live and can be accessed from the link below: Improving Ordered Message Delivery in BizTalk...

This is taken from the GotDotNet Workspace and provides more insight on what is included in the project: Over the last few years, as an active member of Health Level Seven ( HL7 ) standardization organization, Microsoft significantly contributed...

We just published a new whitepaper that provides some specific guidance on HL7 Version 2 development with the BizTalk Accelerator. The whitepaper deals with: Configuring a minimal HL7 solution for testing purposes Customizing HL7 v2 schemas...

On Monday I had the privilege of representing the Connecting for Health NHIN prototype consortium in a panel discussion moderated by Dr.Loonsk . The panel title was "HL7 and International, National and Regional Interoperability" and was formed by 8 people...

As you might know, we released over the past year a number of Reference Implementations specific to Healthcare and Life Sciences. These RI take a business problem and show how you can solve it by applying Microsoft technologies, with particular emphasis...

A great article about BTS 2004 performance tuning has been published to MSDN. This paper was developed by our consultant for a *big* customers using BizTalk for clinical B2B messaging. Summary : This document describes performance tuning for low...

The RHIO sponsored by MA-SHARE in Massachusetts, part of the Connecting for Health NHIN prototype, is built on the Microsoft platform. Check out the press release .

As promised the GOLD version of the IHE XDS.b Reference Implementation is now posted on CodePlex [ direct link ]

I just got back from the HL7 meeting in San Diego . Even if not as exciting as the PDC with announcements on Windows Vista , Office 12 , Sparkle , LINQ and many others, it was still a good meeting. I attended primarily the meetings of the...

The BizTalk/EDI team just started blogging about the new features for EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2. This includes support for the traditional EDI dialects (EDIFACT and X12) as well as more specific industry support with 16 transactions for HIPAA X12N...

57 minutes and 31 seconds of HL7 Software Factories goodness are now posted on the Channel 9 ArcTalk channel. Jack Greenfield and Mauro Regio talk about the concept in general and the implementation for HL7. Direct link: HL7 Software Factories...

Recently we worked with Gartner Group on a webcast outlining the issues that healthcare provider organizations face when it comes to data integration and how solutions such as Amalga UIS 2009 can help address these issues and provide organizations with...

Thanks to everyone that attended the session yesterday and to all of those who contributed to a very lively Q&A session. I posted the slides for the session on SolShare.net , the recording is also available on the Microsoft Events web site . At the...

If you are working with complex messaging patterns (FIFO, parallel…), you might want to check out the Convoy Deep Dive paper up on MSDN. The paper also features a nice healthcare example.

I was not sure we still had these videos up on the web site. They are a little bit dated, you'll see many references to WinFS that in the meantime got cut from Windows Vista, but they are still very well worth seeing and will give you a pretty good idea...

Mauro Regio, leader on the software factories work and DSL, has started his own blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mauroregio . Check it out and give him some feedback!

Our Connected Systems Division recently posted a video case study on Oncology Hematology Associates of Southwest Indiana and their use of BizTalk 2006 and the HL7 Accelerator. Check it out here .

Although not healthcare specific, it's still worth checking out the new BizTalk Server 2006 Developer's Troubleshooting Guide published on the BizTalk Server Developer Center . Anyone doing any serious BizTalk development with HL7 v2, v3 and other healthcare...

I just came across Eric's Blog about BizTalk and the HL7 Accelerator . A great resource for those of you implementing HL7 v2 on the Microsoft platform.

The HealthVault Solution Conference that we did last year has evolved into a broader event that includes more of the solutions that Microsoft has to offer in Health. The Connected Health Conference will be held on June 10-12 in Bellevue, WA and we’re...

We all like to toy with different architectures tailored to solve our business problems. Bob Jarvis, an architect out of the UK, has published a two part article on designing architectural and business patterns. The article uses examples from the U.K...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has just announced the 4 winners of the RFP for the NHIN/RHIO prototype. Microsoft is actively engaged in the one led by CSC and I am personally working on their implementation of the Massachusetts RHIO...

Wow! Can I say best HIMSS ever? This year we had Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, keynote the event . This year was the first time Microsoft showcased products specific to Healthcare with Azyxxi . This year we took a big step in the direction of helping...