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Advanced and reliable, HCnet™ encompasses over 10 years of creating, deploying, and supporting clinical interfaces, including HL7. It is deployed in 24/7 environments processing millions of transactions. HCnet™ makes connecting Healthcare Enterprises faster, easier, and more efficient for RHIOs, hospitals, clinics, system integrators, and IS vendors. It is designed to satisfy diverse integration requirements as well as the practical needs of all Healthcare IT Systems Integration staff: managers, interface professionals, and data center operations. This product is a must-have for any modern Healthcare IT data center.

HCnet™ is based on the following principles:

• Fully Integrated: Develop – Test – Deploy – Monitor
• One product to: develop, test, deploy, monitor
• Based on standard commercial platforms
• Reliable, scalable, & handling very high volumes
• Unlimited free development and test
• Friendly, convenient user interface
• Automatic HL7 Parsing
• Intranet & Internet deployments
• Multiple connection types
• Powerful message browsing
• Alerts and exceptions notifications
• Configuration replication

• Server Platforms: Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Internal Product Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Development/Monitoring Platforms: Microsoft Windows Vista/XP
• Databases: Any ODBC-compliant RDBMS, MS SQL Server, Oracle
• Connector Types: TCP/IP, Web, Database, File (local, UNC, FTP)
• Message Types: HL7, XML, SQL, PDF, Text, Custom
• Scripting: MPP, XSLT, XSD, XQuery, XPath, JavaScript
• Developed in: .NET C#; utilizes multi-processing & multi-threading

• Scripts publishing and reuse
• Powerful processing and transformations language (MPP)
• Remote deployment
• Customizable message routing
• Customizable message filtering
• Customizable message transformations
• Customizable ACK processing
• Customizable resend strategies
• Reusable built-in or custom vendor-specific processing scripts
• Customizable message structure validation
• Customizable data validation
• Configurable sending strategies: transactional, non-transactional
• Content-based message routing
• Web-based Management Gateway enables direct integration with third-party system consoles
• Adaptive to changes; no need to compile plug-ins
• Script repository and version management

Maintanance and Monitoring:

• Connection statistics
• Multi-view message browser
• Logical message linking
• Detailed message tracking for performance tune-ups
• Remote configuration and monitoring
• Message log
• Local and database tracing logs
• Message archive search
• Alerts based on connection parameters

Performance:

• Multi-engine architecture
• Multiple concurrent connections per engine
• Integrated Active Directory security
• Robust priority-based data-driven processing sequencing
• Multi-treading for top performance
• Extreme scalability of engines for top performance and availability

Note: Unique features as compared with other systems are highlighted in blue.

There are two different license types available for the product: Developer License and Production License.

A Production License is required for production deployments only. The license cost is $4,995 per Message Processor. Volume discounts on multi-processor configurations are available.

A Developer License is free and can be used for development and test environments.

Note: The Message Processor under a Developer License will require user interaction after processing a large number of messages. This approach enables full functionality and testing capabilities without any trial period restrictions.

Services include:

• Implementation Assistance
• Production Support Packages: Business Hours or 24/7
• Case-based Training

All minor product updates are available to all customers. Major product updates are discounted for customers with a Production License during the update discount period. Update implementation assistance is available to customers with production support packages.

Training is available for specific implementation cases. Pre-requisites include:

• Prior training and/or experience with HL7, XML, TCP/IP, and RDBMS
• Selection of a Specific Interface