Al, this is a very timely question in many ways. HL7 stands for Health
Level 7 and is an attempt to bring in standardization into Medical
Applications. The theory is to create a protocol that can allow one medical
application to exchange data with another. It is fairly complex and is
still evolving. This may all sound a bit mundane but medical software is
generally woefully behind most other segments. As a sidenote, it is also
very expensive and proprietary.
In reality XML is far more likely to truly enable data-exchange in medicine
but your client has probably been told that HL7 will be the cure to all
their connectivity issues.
A major point to bear in mind is that HL7 can operate both in batch and
real-time modes, this is probably the single most important advantage of the
HL7 format.
I say that your question is timely because Healthcare applications will
probably be the next major wave of web based revenue generating
opportunities for all of us.
This is long winded but I hope it helps you.
Kind Regards - Mike Brunt
Macromedia Consulting
-----Original Message-----
From: Al Musella, DPM
To: CF-Talk
Sent: 5/15/01 4:07 PM
Subject: Anyone hear of the "HL7" protocol?
I have to create a medical website that communicates with a program
that
uses the "HL7" protocol. I never heard of that, and I have to talk to
their programmers tomorrow and don't want to look that stupid:) Anyone
know what they are talking about?
Al Musella, DPM
virtualtrials.com
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