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HL7 Protocol Characteristics: Everything You Need to Know
HL7 is a structured protocol that is used as a means of communicating between healthcare applications. The following descriptions provide an outline that define the characteristics of the HL7 protocol: Event-Driven Real-world events, such as the admission of a patient, cause messages to flow between applications. In other words, an application that encounters a real-world […]
Fundamentals of TCP/IP Communication
In this section, you will learn about the basics of TCP/IP based communication. This section will also discuss the roles of the client and server when implementing an HL7 interface, as well as the limits of TCP/IP. Client or Server When implementing an HL7 interface, your interface will either be acting as a Client or […]
Testing TCP/IP LLP Connections
It can often be useful to test LLP implementations using a low-level tool to view the raw data being transmitted by an interface. An example of such a tool is MSOCS (shown below).
Hybrid Lower Layer Protocol (HLLP)
The Hybrid Lower Layer Protocol (HLLP) is a variation of the more widely used Lower Layer Protocol. Like LLP, HLLP uses TCP/IP as its transport but incorporates error detection and verification via the use of checksums at the end of messages. The checksums are used to verify that no data was corrupted. Checksums are typically […]
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