HL7 3 From a Developer Perspective
by Matthew ~ August 7th, 2007. Filed under: Tips.Here is an interesting article by Vishnuvardhan working at Sun Microsystems in Bangalore, India. We often see semantic analysis done by strategy and process consultants but not usually from the developers working on implementing these solutions. From Vishnu’s blog,
Understanding HL7 V3 specification is a difficult task for the developers who worked on HL7 v2 messages. The HL7 V3 specification is different in many ways from V2. I have gathered all the information required for transmitting HL7 V3 messages from the V3 specification documents and here I will give a general overview of different elements of V3 and constructing the V3 message that can be exchanged with other compatible systems.