HL7 messaging standard

Hospitals, doctors, healthcare professionals and institutions require the ability to exchange information. The HL7 messaging standard defines the structure and content of the messages that are exchanged between systems that are working in various administrative, financial, and clinical activities in the healthcare industry.

HL7 messages can be modeled using the MRM Tagged/Delimited String Format (TDS).

If you are working with HL7 messages you can specify the messaging standard at the message set level and a number of the properties for this standard are set to default settings for HL7 at the message set, complex type, group and element levels.

A predefined message set solution for HL7 can be purchased from IBM.

Related concepts
TDS format: Relationship to the logical model
Message modeling
The message model
Related tasks
Developing message models
Working with message model objects
Related reference
TDS Industry standard formats
Additional TDS information
Message model reference information
Message model object properties
Additional MRM domain information