Thank you to everyone I've worked with over the years as part of the public health informatics research grid project. I've met some extremely bright individuals and had a chance to collaborate with some extremely rare organizations and groups.
Although moving off the project formally (i.e. I won't get paid for contributing), I'll still be participating through the loose system of collaboration that the project uses to create the blog, wiki and software elements.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
New NHIN Connect 2.1 released - initial feedback
Officially, the new release of the NHIN Connect software comes out tomorrow. Unofficially, it was located on the NHIN Connect web site on July 2nd. The release home is located at http://www.connectopensource.org/display/NHINR21/Release+2.1+Home even though this folder isn't in the main menu system at the time of this blog entry.
Here are some of the highlights:
1 - NHIN Adapter and Connector are now distributed as ONE pre-configured set-up. No more TWO-box solutions. ONE-box only!
2 - Documentation has been greatly improved. It isn't flawless, but it is definitely better.
For my next trick, I will be installing a NEW adapter+connector in the lab from scratch on a new VM to see a) how the install goes, but also b) how well the new adapter+connector system functions.
More to come...
Here are some of the highlights:
1 - NHIN Adapter and Connector are now distributed as ONE pre-configured set-up. No more TWO-box solutions. ONE-box only!
2 - Documentation has been greatly improved. It isn't flawless, but it is definitely better.
For my next trick, I will be installing a NEW adapter+connector in the lab from scratch on a new VM to see a) how the install goes, but also b) how well the new adapter+connector system functions.
More to come...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Chronicles of NHIN CONNECT, volume 1
For the past few weeks, I have been in the process of becoming an expert in the NHIN CONNECT project. This project contains both the NHIN connect GATEWAY and the NHIN Connect ADAPTER.
The NHIN Connect project is located at http://www.connectopensource.org and version 2.0 is the current release of the code in question (although 2.1 is supposed to be forthcoming in early July).
While I can now configure a gateway and an adapter in under 1 hour each, there are several 'gotchas' that are not addressed in the documentation. Using the "pre-configured binaries' option (versus install-from-scratch), here are the 'gotchas' so far:
==>Adapter and Connect need different machines. I've tested them on the same one and functionality is mediocre at best. The lab has these set-up nicely on 2 seperate but equal machines.
==>Java is set to allocate 1.2 gb of memory from the start. Don't try this on a machine with less than 1 gb of memory... you want at least 2.
==>OID Registration doesn't work as advertised. Fortunately I haven't needed my OID for internall connectivity but when I connect outside of the lab, I will need this.
==>c:\java is hard-coded as java location. Make sure you install to this location. If you don’t some of the NHIN services break with odd errors. The documentation reflects inaccurate pointers to the java locations. And with _some_ of the application hard-coded with this java location, better safe than sorry.
==>The NHIN documentation says in multiple places that port 9080 is the non-secure port and that 9081 is the secure port. DON'T BELIEVE IT! Port 8181 is the secure port.
Thus concludes volume 1 of the Chronicles of NHIN CONNECT. Stay tuned for updates as the PHGRID <--> NHIN CONNECT interoperability testing continues...
The NHIN Connect project is located at http://www.connectopensource.org and version 2.0 is the current release of the code in question (although 2.1 is supposed to be forthcoming in early July).
While I can now configure a gateway and an adapter in under 1 hour each, there are several 'gotchas' that are not addressed in the documentation. Using the "pre-configured binaries' option (versus install-from-scratch), here are the 'gotchas' so far:
==>Adapter and Connect need different machines. I've tested them on the same one and functionality is mediocre at best. The lab has these set-up nicely on 2 seperate but equal machines.
==>Java is set to allocate 1.2 gb of memory from the start. Don't try this on a machine with less than 1 gb of memory... you want at least 2.
==>OID Registration doesn't work as advertised. Fortunately I haven't needed my OID for internall connectivity but when I connect outside of the lab, I will need this.
==>c:\java is hard-coded as java location. Make sure you install to this location. If you don’t some of the NHIN services break with odd errors. The documentation reflects inaccurate pointers to the java locations. And with _some_ of the application hard-coded with this java location, better safe than sorry.
==>The NHIN documentation says in multiple places that port 9080 is the non-secure port and that 9081 is the secure port. DON'T BELIEVE IT! Port 8181 is the secure port.
Thus concludes volume 1 of the Chronicles of NHIN CONNECT. Stay tuned for updates as the PHGRID <--> NHIN CONNECT interoperability testing continues...
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