Major investment in implementation tools for HL7v3messages

03 June 2009

This large Canadian investment will help UK implementers work with HL7 V3 messages. Infoway is planning to develop a set of tools to aid Point of Service vendors in their adoption and implementation of pan-Canadian Standards, particularly HL7 version 3 messages. They have identified a set of tools that will help this implementation effort and have begun developing detailed requirements for each of those. They are now seeking input from the standards community and from vendors who might use the tools.

All comments were to be submitted by May 29, 2009.

Infoway’s draft requirements for:

1. API Generator, a tool that, given a suite of pan-Canadian HL7 v3 Specifications, will generate APIs for a specified set of operating system and development environments. These APIs can then be used by implementers to adapt their solutions to communicate using the pan-Canadian standards without requiring a detailed understanding of the HL7 v3 specifications or the necessary transport protocols. (Download requirements document...>>)
2. Standards Repository, a structured and searchable repository that provides a single point of reference for all information pertaining to implementing the relevant Pan-Canadian standards. (Download requirements document...>>)
3. Message Validator extensions to the Eclipse Instance Editor to improve the ability of the validator to detect non-conformant instances. (Download requirements document...>>)

Infoway are looking for the following types of feedback on the attached requirements:

• Are the requirements clear?
• Are the tools and requirements appropriate?
• Are there tools or requirements we are missing?
• Are there tools or requirements we have included that will provide little value?

One of Infoway's objectives is to ensure that the tools produced integrate well with standards design and implementation tooling being developed by the standards community, so feedback on changes to improve alignment and interoperability potential would be appreciated as well.