Category Archives: Events

We often attend HL7 events around the globe. When we’re there, we like to blog-blog-blog and share the latest HL7 news with the world.

Translator Training in Toronto

 ·  by Art  · Leave a comment

…Try saying that three times fast!

Or better yet:  join us for one of the in-depth Iguana 5 training sessions that we’ve started offering on-site in Toronto.

It’s been a few weeks since we kicked off our inaugural session and I can tell you that the entire experience was a huge success.

Training people is not only about simply showing features, rules or workflow.  It’s really about finding ways to make the content relevant to the problems the participants see in the real world.  That’s why training here at our Toronto office makes for such a complete training experience.  On top of the fantastic curriculum our team has put together, having the training here means access to the various skills and experience the iNTERFACEWARE team has to offer.

With this first session under our belt, we’re now gearing up for a number of Toronto training sessions — which are selling out rather quickly — and we invite all customers and potential customers to contact us to book a spot today.

Understanding the fundamentals of Iguana 5 and the Iguana Translator, along with learning from the experts about ideal implementations, can significantly decrease deployment times and can make the difference between delivering a project over-or-under budget.

Have a look at our training agenda and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

Cheers,
-Art

 

 

What if… HL7 was truly made easy?

 ·  by Art  · 5 Comments

Today, we here at iNTERFACEWARE are very pleased to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website: http://www.interfaceware.com

The first thing people seem to notice from our website – and the same goes for our appearances at trade shows and other industry events – is our tag line: “HL7 Integration Made Easy“. I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had that have started with: “…you had me at Easy!”.

One of the things we’re most proud of here at iNTERFACEWARE is the fact that we’ve been able to make HL7 workable, understandable, implementable, … and even easy for our customers.

For those who are just starting their HL7 explorations and may be wondering, “How do you make HL7 easy?”,  I thought I’d put a new video together to help you get started.

HL7 Training and Certification

 ·  by Art  · 4 Comments

Last week I had the pleasure of traveling to Boston, Massachusetts to attend the HL7 Educational Summit.   The summit and the instructors were fantastic and it was great to spend time talking with the other participants.  For those unfamiliar, the HL7 organization offers various forms of HL7 training and HL7 certification.  During the educational summits, you can sign-up for 2 full days of classes followed by an optional certification exam.  The classes are quite intense and it’s highly recommended that you read Chapters 2 and 2A of the standard before arriving.  Unlike our training – which is geared towards real-world design and implementation - I think the educational summit classes are best suited for people who – like me – are interested in understanding the micro-details of the standard.

This year, I thought I’d brush up on my HL7 v2.6 knowledge, so I signed up for the classes and even elected to take the HL7 v2.6 Control Specialist certification exam.  Nothing like the fear of an exam to make sure you pay attention during class!

Up for Air after HIMSS

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HIMSS was a blast – I’m just back into the swing of things again in Toronto.  For the last two weeks I’ve been busy interviewing developers – I guess I ought to delegate that task.  But the choice of people you hire seems to be one of the most important things one can do in a software company so I still like to be hands on in this area.  If you know anyone, we’re looking for people with top notch C++ skills and/or web interface AJAX type skillsets (it’s odd to get these two skill sets together so we’ll consider either or).

Thanks to everyone that made the effort to visit us at HIMSS and I apologize for some of you who dropped by when I was busy during demos.  We got a lot more traffic than we anticipated and think most of us didn’t get the time to walk the floor, etc. as much as we hoped.  Next time we’ll staff the booth up more – it felt hard to step away.

I guess for me it was a clear validation we’d picked the right strategy with our focus on Iguana 4.0.  Over the last year and half I spent an awful lot of time talking to customers, understanding where the practical issues occur and figuring out how we could solve them.  Inside the company we spent hours agonizing over the UI and usability issues.  To be honest, I was not certain if customers would value all the effort we put into the product in that area – but to judge from the reaction at HIMSS we got an overwhelming vote of confidence.

Leaving for HIMSS

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We’re packed and ready to fly to Chicago for HIMSS ’09.  We’ll be presenting the Iguana HL7 Interface Engine v4 from Sunday through Wednesday.   So, if you’re in town – and at the conference – why not stop by booth #4909 and spend a little time with us?

Whether you’re coming to see the new product, speak a little HL7 or just meet some of the members of the iNTERFACEWARE team, we look forward to seeing and meeting many of you there.