HL7 101: A Beginner’s Guide
URL: https://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/ftr_01082007p22.shtml Janury 22, 2007 HL7 101: A Beginner’s Guide By Dave Shaver For The Record Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 22 Is HL7 Greek to you? Then get to know the messaging standard whose goal is to connect healthcare organizations that speak different “languages.” In more than 100 nations, written language is based on the same 26-letter alphabet we are familiar with in North America. The words in many of these Indo-European languages are drawn from a set of core ancient languages (Latin, Greek, etc). The sentence construction rules, word spellings, and related details are related yet different. For example, mother in English has a straightforward translation into Spanish (madre), German (mutter), French (mère), and Dutch (moeder). All are close, but none are the same. Accordingly, without some type of translation between languages, a person who speaks only English would not be able to communicate with a person who speaks only Ge...