The Healthcare IT Blog

Here are some tips and tricks for you if you're implementing (or planning to implement) HL7 v3 using the .NET Framework v1.1. The first thing to do after downloading the HL7 v3 schemas from the HL7 web site is patch them to include the target and default...

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 .

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.

Marc Dencker is a Solution Architect in the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) vertical of Microsoft Consultancy Services. As a solution architect he focuses on application development issues that are specific to HLS primarily around clinical trials...

Sorry for the late notice, but we're hosting a Windows Vista webcast on Monday . If you read this post and join the webcast, add a little (b) to your name and we'll know who you are! Windows Vista for Healthcare (1 hour) June 19, 2006 1:00 pm (PST...

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!

This is some great work on federated security in healthcare done by several researchers at the University of Virginia, dept. of Computer Science (full disclosure: Microsoft funded some of the papers). The "Papers and Presentations" section has a lot...

Rob Relyea has a walktrough of the famous Avalon (now WPF) healthcare demo from the past PDC. If you want to get your hands on it a get a look at the code behind this flashy demo, you can do it here .

Connecting for Health has published the Common Framework , a set of guidelines and best practices for getting your RHIO off the ground. The Common Framework is split into three different parts: Policy guides Technical guides Model Contractual...

I looked at my blog today and I hav not been blogging in more than a month! It's incredible how time goes by while you're having fun ;-) Oh, and HIMSS also played a big role in that as well! We had a very good show and the Microsoft pavillion was...

All the buzz in the U.S. right now is related to the strong push towards national and regional health information exchanges. In April 2004, the President announced the intention to provide within 10 years an electronic health record to every U.S. resident...

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...

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...

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...

If you were wondering how the Reference Implementations turned into solutions supported by our partners, you should check out the Microsoft Office System Solution Showcase. We have several solutions related to Healthcare and Life Sciences: ...

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 .

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...

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...

Everybody trying to implement a solution that uses HL7 Version 3 standards faces a pretty steep learning curve. This is not specific to HL7, but to any industry standard and can be extended to include company guidelines for software development as well...

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...

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.

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...

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...

This is a collection of articles, downloads and resources for using BizTalk Server with HL7 Version 2 and Version 3: HL7 Version 2.x BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 Deployment Guide This document provides detailed procedures for deploying network...

Check out this example on Channel 9 of how technologies first developed for Windows Vista (a.k.a. Longhorn) such as Avalon, can be applied to design more user friendly healthcare applications. The demo was first shown at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner...