Thursday, June 23, 2011

View HL7 as SOA instance – Part 1


HL 7
It’s an Message Oriented Middleware protocol framework for computer communication between healthcare application systems. HL stand for  "Health Level", and ‘7’ represent OSI layer protocol for the health care environment. It defines standard and formats of the messages that applications should use when exchanging data using MOM.


SOA instance
Service Level and Binding level are two parts that is needed to consider when constructing an instance of HL7 using HL 7 WSDL template. This includes communication between systems, establishing connections and sessions with HL7 external systems using MOM.