E-Prescription with Surescripts
One of the more challenging interfaces that many of our customers have to deal with is the E-Subscription interface from Surescripts. The format uses XML with EDIFACT messages embedded in the XML encoded with base 64. I had a customer on Friday asking about it and so I took the Iguana 5.0 Translator for a […]
Non-linear Software Economics
If Karl Marx were alive today he would have a field day updating his theories on the crisis of capitalism to encompass the shifting morass that forms the economics of software. With the current recession there has been a lot of debate about the use of economic stimulus with Keynesian theory: how government can effectively […]
My Dad Mervyn Muir – A pioneer meta integration engineer
The question of meta programming and modeling in health-care is a hot issue with HL7 v3 and the Reference Information Model (RIM). When ever it comes up I think about my Dad’s TV remote. My dad Mervyn was the personification of think different long before Apple ever trademarked the term. He worked his entire career for the New […]
Version 2 HL7 in JSON is not the answer
Oh dear. I didn’t really expect the rise and fall of HL7 to go viral. Now it seems I’m about to go down in history as the guy who said HL7 should be done in JSON. Oops. I do not actually think re-encoding version 2 HL7 in JSON is a good idea. Oh technically it’s quite […]
The Rise and Fall of HL7
The title of this post might seem unusual from what is supposed to be an HL7 middleware vendor. But times are changing and that is not where I see our future. Standards do not exist in a vacuum. To be successful standards must address market needs and solve real problems so people can make or save money. Writing […]
Conversations From HIMSS11
Now that I’m back and well rested from the whirlwind of HIMSS, I wanted to share some of what I personally experienced at the conference. Firstly, I was quite taken aback by the overwhelmingly positive response that our new approach to integration received. The unveiling of the Iguana Translator platform was a great success! Out […]
The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 5
Part 5: Redesigning the Modern Interface Engine As HIMSS is right around the corner, I’m growing increasingly excited to showcase Iguana v5: our redesign of the modern interface engine. In previous posts in this blog series, I’ve explored the headaches faced by integration engineers, the complexities in the economics of integration and the failed promise […]
The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 4
Part 4: The failed promise of graphical mapping In the first post of this blog series, Re-thinking Integration, I explained how I have spent a great deal of time examining my assumptions about what middleware needs to deliver. At the forefront of my original assumptions was my belief that the majority of mapping could be […]
The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 3
Part 3: The Integration Engineer An old friend and customer of mine once told me that the two most important tools in his job as an integration engineer were Iguana and his phone but not in that order. The majority of his time was spent talking to his customers to determine the requirements needed to […]
The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 2
Part 2: It’s all about economics There is an old joke I enjoy, that I think has a lot of relevance to software. There was a guy who always cut his pot roast in half before cooking it. His wife was curious as to why he always did it that way. He replied that this […]
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