I’ve been having performance issues with one of my client’s BizTalk 2006 R2 deployment. Specifically, one of their high-volume hospital client complaint that it was taking up to 1 minute to get an ACK back from the HL7 Accelerator 2.0. The client thought it has to do with network latency and started going down that [...]
If you are doing a fresh install of Microsoft BizTalk 2006 R2 and Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 2.0, I recommend that you install KB 941261 right away as well. This hotfix is only necessary if you send HL7 messages through the accelerator, but if you’re dealing with HL7, chances are good that you will [...]
If you are planning on going to the Cabo San Lucas area, I highly recommend that you STAY AWAY from a restaurant called “Los Ajos“. Why you asked? While the service was good and the food tasted pretty good, the “aftermath” from the place can be a danger to your health. My wife and I, [...]
I’ve been working on a patient data management system for my client based on inbound HL7 messages. An issue I struggled trying to figure out which identifier, as assigned by the hospital, represents the unique patient and which identifier represents the unique visit. I was initially thrown off by the name of PID.18 (Patient Account [...]
It all started more than 4 months ago. We lost power due to a thunderstorm and when the power returned, the temperature read-out for the refrigerator side started blinking and the 1.5 years old Samsung Refrigerator (RS267LASH/XAA) was never the same. The problem was that the temperature in the refrigerator side would fluctuate between 38F [...]
