yes, unfortunately, i do know what that is. it is an antiquated attempt at
standardizing electronic transmission of medical information, imho. hl7 is a
language like html is a language. it, too, has a parser.
in the end hl7 will lose out to xml, but that will not be for a while. in
the mean time
Yeah, when I had to work on a pharmacutical intranet.
http://www.hl7.org/
It's a 'standard' for exchanging clinical information, etc. I didn't have to
work much w/ it as someone else was writing the parser so the website's your
best bet.
-Original Message-
From: Al Musella, DPM
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
Thanks everyone for the responses...
the format of the file seems complicated but doable.. the problem seems to
be how to actually transfer the data from their system to my application.
They will be connected by a novell network, currently I use an ODBC
datasource to run sql querries on
Probably worth mentioning that HL7 version 3 includes specs not only for old-style
HL7 messages (updated, of
course, to include all the new stuff in version 3) but also a complete DTD for sending
messages in XML, too. I
know some of the people on the HL7 committee, and they fully recognize the
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