{"id":123,"date":"2009-08-24T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2010-11-24T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T09:41:26","slug":"hl7-messaging-and-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/?page_id=123","title":{"rendered":"HL7 messaging and interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HL7 is the healthcare industry &#8220;standard&#8221; for computer messaging between software systems and its latest version 3 is based upon XML.<\/p>\n<p>HL7 interface applications generally listen for HL7 messages sent on a TCP\/IP port via\u00a0 HL7&#8217;s standard Lower Layer Protocol (LLP).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some useful links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hl7.org\">HL7.org<\/a> &#8211; Health Level 7 &#8211; the main body that oversees development of the standard<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hl7.org.au\">HL7.org.au<\/a> &#8211; the Australian chapter of the HL7 body<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HL7 Standards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hl7standards.com\/\">HL7 standards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ahml.org.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ahml.org.au\/\">Australian Healthcare Messaging Laboratory (AHML) &#8211; Online HL7 Message Testing and Certification<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HL7\">HL7 on wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HL7 Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortherecordmag.com\/archives\/ftr_01082007p22.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">HL7 101 &#8211; a beginner&#8217;s tutorial posted by <em>For the Record <\/em>magazine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hl7.com.au\/FAQ.htm\">introduction to HL7 by hl7.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.interfaceware.com\/\">iNTERFACEWARE&#8217;s blog<\/a> on HL7 with tutorials<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.interfaceware.com\/hl7\/hl7-demo-the-movie\/\">iNTERFACEWARE&#8217;s Iguana HL7 interface software demo<\/a> (nice video showing the basics of receiving HL7 message and converting into records ina database)<\/li>\n<li>iNTERFACEWARE&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfaceware.com\/chameleon_features.html\">Chameleon HL7 toolkit<\/a> for Java, Delphi, C++, C#, .NET, VB, etc<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.health-level-7.com\/\">health-level-7.com<\/a> &#8211; blog<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ehrguy.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ehrguy.com\/\">The Healthcare IT Interoperability Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/hl7-watch.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/hl7-watch.blogspot.com\/\">HL7 Watch \u2013 Blog; critical review of HL7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medical-objects.com.au\/\">Medical-Objects<\/a> &#8211; Queensland-based HL7 messaging software<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hl7connect.com\/\">Kestral HL7Connect<\/a> &#8211; Australian HL7 messaging software (?based on Delphi)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hms.com.au\">Health Management Systems (HMS)<\/a> &#8211; Victorian based ambulatory care software and scheduler with HL7 software (?Delphi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HL7 is the healthcare industry &#8220;standard&#8221; for computer messaging between software systems and its latest version 3 is based upon XML. 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