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Any idea how I should load test a MLLP adapter using LoadGen 2007?

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 [...]

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 [...]