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If You Read Only One Security Federation Paper This Year...
...let it be this one: https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb498017.aspx The whitepaper was...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 05/29/2007
Deadline for MS-HUG Call for Proposals Extended!
If you need a little bit more time for those proposals, here you go! The deadline has been extended...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 05/26/2007
MS-HUG Call for Proposal Now OPEN!
As you know, we're hosting the next MS-HUG Tech Forum in Redmond, WA on August 21st-22nd. The call...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 05/07/2007
Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences Developer Conference [UPDATE]
[Update 1] The team working on the conference created a landing site at...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 04/03/2007
BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 v2.0 - Schema Generation Tool
The Community Technology Preview for BizTalk 2006 R2 just came out and Beta 2 is coming soon. In...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 03/13/2007
Post-HIMSS Debrief
Wow! Can I say best HIMSS ever? This year we had Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, keynote the event....
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 03/09/2007
News from HIMSS
Yesterday, in conjunction with the official start of the 2007 HIMSS Conference, we made a couple of...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 02/27/2007
FeedBurner
A house-keeping post between one HIMSS session and the next. To allow for better management of my...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 02/25/2007
HIMSS
Well, it's time to pack an go. The show is about to start. I'm of course referring to HIMSS in New...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 02/24/2007
Mark your Calendars for Future industryCasts
I wanted to give you an heads up for a series of webcasts that we're planning: January, 30th 2007...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 01/26/2007
Connected Health Framework Webcast - The Day After
Thanks to everyone that attended the session yesterday and to all of those who contributed to a very...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 01/17/2007
Connected Health Framework Webcast - SOLD OUT!
The Connected Health Framework Webcast on Tuesday January 16th is SOLD OUT! I'll send out a link to...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 01/15/2007
Upcoming Events
I wanted to highlight some of the upcoming events: Next week is the HL7 Working Group Meeting in San...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 01/05/2007
Have You Been to SolShare Lately?
While catching up on work, that unfortunately does not stop when you're on vacation, I noticed that...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 01/03/2007
The Microsoft Connected Health Framework
Let me try and paint a picture, let's see if this applies to any of you: I have many portals, mostly...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 11/21/2006
EDI Support in BizTalk 2006 R2 (HIPAA and More...)
The BizTalk/EDI team just started blogging about the new features for EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2....
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 10/16/2006
It's That Time of the Year Again - MS-HUG Call for Proposals
We're looking for proposals for the upcoming MS-HUG 2007 Spring Tech Forum. The ideal candidate...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 10/06/2006
Steve and Simon are Blogging about HL7 and Healthcare IT
I'm happy to see the community grow and Steve Hart and Simon Chester blogging about HL7 Version 3,...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 09/19/2006
HL7 Submits Its Standards to ISO
HL7 Has submitted a batch of standards for ISO approval: A set of data standards developed by HL7, a...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 09/19/2006
Must Read for Any BizTalk Developer
Although not healthcare specific, it's still worth checking out the new BizTalk Server 2006...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 09/15/2006
Update From The HL7 Working Group Meeting
On Monday I had the privilege of representing the Connecting for Health NHIN prototype consortium in...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 09/13/2006
HL7 Working Group Meeting
Next week I will be at the HL7 Plenary and Working Group Meeting in Boca Raton, FL (I don't think...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 09/07/2006
Blogging MS-HUG TechForum - Day 2
The second and last day of the MS-HUG TechForum is over and everybody has gone home with a load of...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 08/30/2006
Blogging MS-HUG TechForum - Day 1
Yesterday I attended the first day of the MS-HUG TechForum, 13.5 hours of education, connecting with...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 08/29/2006
MS-HUG Tech Forum
The Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) Tech Forum is set to kick off on August 28 in Redmond,...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 08/16/2006
Implementing HL7 v3 Using the .NET Framework 1.1
Here are some tips and tricks for you if you're implementing (or planning to implement) HL7 v3 using...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 07/22/2006
BizTalk Server 2006 and HL7 Case Study
Our Connected Systems Division recently posted a video case study on Oncology Hematology Associates...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 07/22/2006
Eric Blogs on BizTalk and HL7 v2
I just came across Eric's Blog about BizTalk and the HL7 Accelerator. A great resource for those of...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 07/22/2006
Marc is Blogging about Healthcare @ Microsoft
Marc Dencker is a Solution Architect in the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) vertical of Microsoft...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 07/14/2006
MS-HUG Tech Forum Preview Webcast
Sorry for the late notice, but we're hosting a Windows Vista webcast on Monday. If you read this...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 06/16/2006
Mauro is blogging
Mauro Regio, leader on the software factories work and DSL, has started his own blog at...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 06/08/2006
Advancing Cyber Security with .NET
This is some great work on federated security in healthcare done by several researchers at the...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 05/01/2006
Building the Healthcare Avalon (WPF) Demo from Scratch
Rob Relyea has a walktrough of the famous Avalon (now WPF) healthcare demo from the past PDC. If you...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 05/01/2006
Guidance on RHIOs
Connecting for Health has published the Common Framework, a set of guidelines and best practices for...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 04/20/2006
Wow!
I looked at my blog today and I hav not been blogging in more than a month! It's incredible how time...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 03/13/2006
Healthcare Business Patterns and Architectures
We all like to toy with different architectures tailored to solve our business problems. Bob Jarvis,...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 12/22/2005
More Windows Vista in Healthcare
I was not sure we still had these videos up on the web site. They are a little bit dated, you'll see...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 12/22/2005
HL7 Software Factories Podcast
57 minutes and 31 seconds of HL7 Software Factories goodness are now posted on the Channel 9 ArcTalk...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 12/15/2005
Healthcare Solution Showcases
If you were wondering how the Reference Implementations turned into solutions supported by our...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 12/05/2005
Microsoft's Role in the NHIN
The RHIO sponsored by MA-SHARE in Massachusetts, part of the Connecting for Health NHIN prototype,...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 11/18/2005
More on HL7 Software Factories
This is taken from the GotDotNet Workspace and provides more insight on what is included in the...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 11/15/2005
NHIN/RHIO, a step closer...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has just announced the 4 winners of the RFP for the...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 11/10/2005
HL7 Software Factories
Everybody trying to implement a solution that uses HL7 Version 3 standards faces a pretty steep...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 11/03/2005
Healthcare Reference Implementations
As you might know, we released over the past year a number of Reference Implementations specific to...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 10/27/2005
BizTalk 2004 Convoy Deep Dive
If you are working with complex messaging patterns (FIFO, parallel…), you might want to check out...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 10/27/2005
BizTalk Server 2004: Performance Tuning for Low Latency Messaging
A great article about BTS 2004 performance tuning has been published to MSDN. This paper was...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 10/06/2005
HL7 Plenary and Working Group Meeting
I just got back from the HL7 meeting in San Diego. Even if not as exciting as the PDC with...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 09/16/2005
Smorgasbord of BizTalk Resources for HL7 Messaging
This is a collection of articles, downloads and resources for using BizTalk Server with HL7 Version...
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 09/08/2005
Windows Vista in Healthcare...
Check out this example on Channel 9 of how technologies first developed for Windows Vista (a.k.a....
Author: Roberto_Ruggeri Date: 09/06/2005