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.