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Introduction and Overview


HL7Spy is a

productivity enhancement tool for

powerful utility designed to streamline the workflow of individuals working

with 

with HL7 2.x messages, enhancing productivity and efficiency.

HL7Spy was

Originally developed for a

group

team of HL7 Analysts

working for a large provider of

at a leading Radiology Information Systems (RIS)

. Their job was to integrate

provider, HL7Spy was created to facilitate the integration of the company's

Radiology Work-flow

radiology workflow product with

the

hospital

's

IT

infrastructure.

If you are familiar with HL7 and have had the opportunity to analyze HL7 messages coming from different HL7 systems providers, this can be a very non-trivial task. Site-specific variations, fields formatted incorrectly, field lengths not adhered to, missing required fields, or fields put in the wrong location, misinterpretations of the standard, misuse of transaction types, and shortcuts taken by vendors, are the norm, not the exception.

As an analyst, faced with the variability of HL7 and the often incomplete, or inaccurate message definition provided by the customer, the job of interconnecting two systems is a daunting task indeed.

This is where HL7Spy comes in. HL7Spy has been designed to help HL7 analysts and programmers quickly interpret, and characterize very

infrastructures. The complex nature of HL7 message analysis, combined with the numerous site-specific variations, formatting issues, and other challenges, makes the process of interconnecting two systems a daunting task.

HL7Spy is designed to simplify this task for analysts and programmers by offering rapid interpretation and characterization of large HL7 message streams. It

quickly reads in

can swiftly process thousands of messages

and provides

, generating detailed statistics at

the

various levels, such as message, field, component, and sub-component

levels

. This

information

data provides

great insight into the nature of

valuable insights into the message exchange

and takes the guesswork out of know which fields are filled in when, and with what values.HL7Spy also includes

dynamics, helping users understand the frequency and content of specific fields.

In addition to its analysis capabilities, HL7Spy boasts a range of features for viewing, editing, searching, sorting, sending, and receiving HL7

, retrieving

messages. Users can also retrieve messages from databases,

viewing

view messages in hexadecimal format, and

a host of other features

access various other functions that make HL7Spy an

invaluable

indispensable tool for

ongoing maintenance

maintaining and troubleshooting

of

HL7 interfaces.