HL7 Integration: How to simplify it?
HL7 standards are the most extensively used standards in today's Healthcare IT Services industry. Why? Because these standards reduce vendors' effort and relieve them of the burden of customizing and programming each system for specific applications. Furthermore, the healthcare institution gets access to best practices for processes such as patient attribute gathering. What is the HL7 protocol? The terms HL7 and interface can be used to describe HL7 interfaces . Healthcare organizations use HL7 to enable communication between clinical applications. Interconnection or communication between those apps or systems is defined as an interface. It is vital for healthcare application vendors to provide a mechanism for this interaction within their applications. The HL7 interface requirements for various message types will be used as a starting point, and healthcare providers will also supply input and/or output interfaces for their applications. An HL7 interface includes the...