HL7 into JSON

Owned by Eliot Muir
Last updated: Jan 04, 2022
1 min read

Very long video with Joe Amato but good stuff.

Why does it take 9-12 months to implement a HL7 interface? Is it:

  • Interface engines are hard to use?

  • HL7 engineers aren’t very clever?

  • HL7 is difficult and we should be using FHIR?

If you are curious about this problem skip to minute 34 of the video as found by Matt.

<joke!>. The issue is that there is a big communication process required when getting a large healthcare system to test out an interface - think boundary cases like when you have twins or triplets. See this article talking about the fundaments of optimizing a communication process.