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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

 

 

Transforming HL7 Messages – The Movie

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From Art:

Thanks to my newest video-recruit – Mo – we now have a new addition to our “The Movie” series of videos.  This time around, Mo explains how to easy it can be to transform HL7 messages using Iguana and Chameleon.

For those of you who’ve been waiting for a new animated feature from iNTERFACEWARE, don’t worry, I’m just putting the finishing touches on my newest instalment as I type this.  In the meantime, we thought we’d offer a practical solution to our newer customers who are attempting to transform HL7 messages for the first time.

With that said, I’ll pass this post over to Mo to introduce his brand new tutorial video: Transforming HL7 messages.

HL7 Integration on 64 bit Windows

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Started    : Monday, June 1st, 2009 @ 11:02:43 AM
Duration   : 17 minutes 3 seconds
Hostname   : WinBuild64
Build_ID    : WinBuild64/2009-06-01_11-02.Iguana_64
Source DateTime: 2009-06-01 15:02:46 UTC

Complete Success!

… but, what does that actually mean?

It’s the result from one of our successful builds of the 64 bit version of Iguana on Windows.  Dmitri – one of the very talented developers who works hard behind the scenes here at iNTERFACEWARE to make all your HL7 integration dreams come true – did a fantastic job of putting together this latest 64 bit build.

If you’re interested in being one of the first to try out Iguana 4.1 (beta) on 64 bit Windows, you can find the latest build on our ftp site.

http://dl.interfaceware.com/iguana/windows/snapshot/

Ignoring Duplicate HL7 Messages

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Sometimes – regardless of how advanced our software, hardware and networks become – it’s the simplest of problems that give us the biggest headaches.

That was the case for a few of our customers recently.  After taking the time to build, test and deploy their interfaces, they were faced with a situation they hadn’t prepared for:  What to do when duplicate messages were sent to one of their channels?

This may not seem like a huge issue when a message is accidentally sent twice – but imagine what would happen if, like a broken record, that same message was sent 100, 1000 or even 1,000,000 times.  That’s a lot of needless stress to place on your database when all you’d be doing is updating an identical record.

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.

Getting Started with Iguana 4.0

 ·  by Art  · 2 Comments

So, you’ve seen the announcement, read about all the improvements and even visited our blog – what’s next?

It’s time to upgrade to Iguana 4.0!

Upgrading to Iguana 4.0 is easier than ever.  For most, upgrading is simply a matter of downloading Iguana – and running our installer.  The installer will not only upgrade both Iguana and Chameleon, but it will also automatically backup and convert your existing Iguana configuration files to our new consolidated format.

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.

Introducing Iguana 4.0

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HL7 Integration Engine HL7 Interface

We’re very proud to officially announce the launch of Iguana 4.0. This is a major milestone for all of us at iNTERFACEWARE. With months of design, development, QA and stress-testing behind us, everyone is very excited to see just how quickly – and easily – our customers have been taking to the new release.

Want to jump right in? Go ahead and download your free copy of the most current version here: IGUANA 4.0: HL7 Integration Engine