I've been scouring the internet trying to get a clear picture of what HL7 is... a lot of the hospitals and healthcare facilities here are starting to ask for HL7 experience...
At first I thought that HL7 was an XML application that defines a variety of classes and objects... But now I'm beginning to suspect that there was an actual HL7 protocolt hat defined all the classes, etc and it has since been moved over to XML....
Where can I get a soft introduction into it ... lets say I want to write an application that can export data in HL7 format...
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HL7 is a set of protocols that defines how healthcare messages may be constructed, the ANSI approved version is v2, in this version messages are constructed using vertical bar encoding, an alternative to this encoding is v2.xml.
HL7 is now working in the newest version that is called v3, this one is an absolute different aproximation to the exchangin healthcare messages problem. In this version the start point is the RIM (Reference Information Model), this one defines the classes and associations among then that can be used to develop a healthcare messaging system, taking the RIM as guide you can construct a HMD (Hierarchical Message Description) , after this you can map this HMD to XML (or other format you want). You can find a lot of information about this topic in www.hl7.org
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I've been scouring the internet trying to get a clear picture of what HL7 is... a lot of the hospitals and healthcare facilities here are starting to ask for HL7 experience...
At first I thought that HL7 was an XML application that defines a variety of classes and objects... But now I'm beginning to suspect that there was an actual HL7 protocolt hat defined all the classes, etc and it has since been moved over to XML....
Where can I get a soft introduction into it ... lets say I want to write an application that can export data in HL7 format...
HL7 is a set of protocols that defines how healthcare messages may be constructed, the ANSI approved version is v2, in this version messages are constructed using vertical bar encoding, an alternative to this encoding is v2.xml.
HL7 is now working in the newest version that is called v3, this one is an absolute different aproximation to the exchangin healthcare messages problem. In this version the start point is the RIM (Reference Information Model), this one defines the classes and associations among then that can be used to develop a healthcare messaging system, taking the RIM as guide you can construct a HMD (Hierarchical Message Description) , after this you can map this HMD to XML (or other format you want). You can find a lot of information about this topic in www.hl7.org