Overview of business objects for HL7

HL7 provides two ways by which to offer message representation:

The following sections describe rules in how to construct business objects to represent the necessary HL7 data elements.

Supported native message

When creating, configuring or modifying supported native messages:

Mapping the primitive data type

Use the following table to map the primitive data type:

Table 24. Mapping the Primitive data type
HL7 data elements Business object attribute data type
SI String
ID String
NM Float
DT String
IS String
ST String
FT String
TX String

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