Data Format Libraries

Rapidly Increase the Reach of Your HL7 Systems

Healthcare organizations must communicate complex information with many internal and external systems. The Health Level 7 (HL7) messaging standard was designed to support this requirement by serving as the common language of healthcare for clinical data exchange, so that critical data is universally understood and organized. Currently more than 90% of healthcare facilities use HL7, often as a component of a larger Care Provider Organization (CPO) business integration scenario. Unfortunately, there's no single version of this "common language". Healthcare organizations must bridge multiple versions of the standard, as well as incorporate their own variants to it.

Challenges
Multiple HL7 standards lead to extensive data format issues:

• Systems using different versions of HL7 often can't communicate
• Conversion is difficult among multiple versions of HL7, especially because users can add or modify new fields
• Traditional parsing tools and languages struggle with HL7 files

The Complex Data Exchange Solution
Using Complex Data Exchange technology, developers can leverage address new message types in one-tenth of the time it takes with custom coded data handlers. Typical deployments include multiple messages, so the time savings is significant.

By leveraging Complex Data Exchange for HL7, organizations benefit from:

• Improved data consistency across healthcare systems and organizations
• Decreased time-to-delivery, with proof of concept in hours instead of days
• Reduced effort and cost of development over the solution lifetime

Key capabilities include:

• Pre-built HL7 frameworks that can be customized in minutes for application-specific requirements
• Unique, innovative data transformation capabilities that support co-existence of multiple versions of standards and site-specific variations
• Editable libraries that can be easily adjusted to fit any proprietary HL7 implementation
• Automated creation of reusable "custom data handlers" that eliminate the need to develop custom code repeatedly