HL7 for BizTalk

CHAPTER 1

BizTalk and HL7

Although most of this book is primarily about the BizTalk Accelerator, you first need to understand what the HL7 is and what the HL7 standards are all about. This chapter will serve as an introduction to these standards and will also provide you with a foundation that will make it easier for you to understand the topics in all the chapters.

Before you take a look at the HL7 standards, you should know a little bit about HL7 (Figure 1-1). Since HL7 can do a better job describing itself then we can, the following sections contain excerpts from the HL7 web site (www.hl7.org/about/index.cfm?ref=nav).

Figure 1-1. HL7 International ...