On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 11:47, Thomas Beale wrote: > well, actually, even though HL7v2 had a mania of translators all over > the place, and at great cost, it did succeed quite well. Where it > succeeded best (to my knowledge) was in environments where translators > were eliminated; i.e in New Zealand, where everyone uses exactly the > same HL7 software, and to a lesser extent in Australia, where HL7v2 > messages are standardised for he whole country.
Um, every hospital installation of HL7 in Australia of which I am aware relies completely on the presence of an HL7 translation facility such as STC DataGate/eGate (see http://www.stc.com/products/ICAN_productsEgate.asp ) for its success. And on a small army of software engineers, steeped in arcane HL7 knowledge, who look after the care and feeding of the HL7 translation facility... -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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